LEO BOIX recommends a ravishing, full-bodied drama about the intensely demanding and emotional art of Kabuki theatre
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MARIA DUARTE recommends a homage to fearless, independent and empowering elderly women
The Last of the Sea Women - South Korea's natural marine divers
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On the day of the election, MARTIN GOLLAN reflects on the perennial relationship between the far-right and the back-hander
MARY CONWAY is gripped by the powerful emotional journeys portrayed by the parents of the perpetrator and victims of a mass shooting
LEO BOIX reviews a novel where shadows deceive and mortality looms, and a poetry collection that refuses to dim
ROBIN STYLES welcomes a boundary pushing work of fiction exploring the life and ideas of the godmother of modernism
PAUL DONOVAN recommends an energetic adaptation of Ken Kesey’s novel, that emphasises how psychiatry is a tool in the hands of a racist agenda
The Last of the Sea Women (PG)
Directed by Sue Kim
“BEING an haenyeo is a calling,” states one of the extraordinary protagonists in Sue Kim’s enlightening directorial debut feature about a little-known but fierce band of women in South Korea.
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