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Film round-up: October 24, 2024
Colonial plunder goes home, chilly euthanasia, transsexual drug baron and venom’s end: The Star's critic MARIA DUARTE reviews Dahomey, The Room Next Door, Emilia Perez and Venom: The Last Dance
Mati Diop's Dahomey
PAUL DONOVAN relishes a fascinating exploration of the leading lights of the Labour right in the 1970s
BEN LUNN alerts us to the creeping return of philanthropy and private patronage, and suggests alternative paths to explore
A novel by Argentinian Jorge Consiglio, a personal dictionary by Uruguayan Ida Vitale, and poetry by Mexican Homero Aridjis
MIK SABIERS savours the first headline solo show of the stalwart of Brighton’s indie-punk outfit Blood Red Shoes
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STEVEN ANDREW is moved beyond words by a historical account of mining in Britain made from the words of the miners themselves
Dahomey (PG)
Directed by Mati Diop
★★★
WINNER of the coveted Golden Bear award at this year’s Berlinale, Dahomey is an immersive and haunting work from co-writer director Mati Diop which explores the effects of colonisation, appropriation, self-determination and restitution.
It follows the return in November 2021 of 26 royal treasures from the Kingdom of Dahomey by the French government. They were among thousands of others plundered by French colonial troops in 1892.
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