MAYER WAKEFIELD has reservations about the direction of a play centered on a DVLA re-training session for three British-Pakistani motorists
Sense of realism rewarded at Cannes film festival
Shoplifters
New releases from Steve Knightley, Jupiter & Okwess, Jason Palmer, Lisa Knapp and Gerry Driver, Kin'Gongolo Kiniata, Ingrid Laubrock/Tom Rainey, Dan Sealey, Simin Tande, PAZ
JOHN GREEN relishes photography that unfolds a longstanding and poetic relationship with Leeds
A uncomfortably misogynistic authorial voice that sometimes seems to lack insight troubles FIONA O’CONNOR
MARY CONWAY is disappointed by a production that panders – if inadvertently – to Western prejudice against China
JOHN GREEN is fascinated by a history that excavates the enormous role played by agricultural workers in recent times
ALEX HALL recommends a book that places empirical evidence at the heart of understanding racism
JAPANESE film-maker Hirokazu Kore-eda's Shoplifters, the story of a shoplifting father and son who adopt a homeless girl, has won the the Palme d'Or at Cannes. A profound and subtle observation of human compassion, it's a world away from Spike Lee's BlacKkKlansman which carried off the Grand Prix.
In an explosive satire on racism, Lee uses the remarkable true story of a black cop who infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan in the 70s as the vehicle to skewer the racist recidivism of the Trump era.
The Jury prize went to Lebanese director Nadine Labaki for Capernaum, a neorealist drama about a Palestinian boy who sues his parents for bringing him into the pain of this world. It's a gripping and urgent protest against lives devastated by poverty.
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