GORDON PARSONS is riveted by a translation of Shakespeare’s tragedy into joyous comedy set in a southern black homestead
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Film round-up: September 6, 2024
Yorkshire chills, tangled in the dark web, pregnancy diaries and brackish juice: MARIA DUARTE reviews Starve Acre, Red Rooms, My First Film and Beetlejuice
(L) Juliette Gariepy in Red Rooms; (R) Morfydd Clark in Starve Acre
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GEORGE FOGARTY relishes the music of black British artists that channels Carribbean, Latin and club sounds, along with contemporary west African radicalism
CHRIS SEARLE hears the ordeal of the Palestinian people in the improvised musicianship of a UK jazz trio
DAVID RENTON is puzzled by an ambitious attempt to look back on world culture from the future without engaging with or understanding it
MICHAEL STEWART applauds a fun send-up of the substandard Agatha Christie whodunnit
LEO BOIX reviews a novella by Brazilian Ana Paula Maia, and poetry by Peruvian Giancarlo Huapaya, and Chilean Elvira Hernandez
Starve Acre (15)
Directed by Daniel Kokotajlo
★★★
SET in 1970s rural England this chilling gothic horror revenge fantasy about the crippling effects of grief is writer-director Daniel Kokotajlo’s follow-up to his award-winning debut Apostasy.
Adapted from the novella by Andrew Michael Hurley, it centres on Richard (Matt Smith) and Juliette (Morfydd Clark) who relocate to their remote family home, Starve Acre, in Yorkshire when their son Owen (Arthur Shaw) starts acting oddly and upends their idyllic life, throwing it into turmoil.
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