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CHRISTINE LINDEY welcomes a film that focuses exclusively on women war artists, but deplores its omission of feminism, political context and Soviet anti-war art
Shirin Nershar in War Paint: Women at War

War Paint: Women at War (12A)
Directed by Margy Kinmonth

 

 

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