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Film round-up: March 27, 2025
The Star's critics BRETT GREGORY, JOHN GREEN, MICHAEL BONCZA and ANGUS REID review The Stimming Pool, Misericordia, La Cocina, Irena’s Vow, and The End
The Stimming Pool
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STEVE JOHNSON speaks to JIM MORAY about an album that marks 25 years since his first
DENNIS BROE observes how cutbacks, mergers and AI create content detached from both reality and history itself
SAHAR MARANLOU explores a novella, newly translated and republished in English that tells the history of Iran through women’s bodies
DAVID NICHOLSON applauds the revival of a joyous production that deals with choirs, competitions and communism
New releases from Peruvian Ranil y Su Conjunto Tropical, Leve Leve: Sao Tome & Principe, and South African BCUC
The Stimming Pool (12A)
Directed by The Neurocultures Collective and Steven Eastwood
★★★★
SET in the south of England, this self-reflexive instance of cinematic “faction” follows five young adults as they travel through an hour-long narrative that offers up visions of what it is like to have autism: how it can motivate thoughts and feelings, inform dreams and creativity, as well as affect interpersonal behaviour and social positioning.
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