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BENJAMIN POTHIER suggests that Palaeolithic cave paintings in Spain point to the ceremonial use of hallucinogenic flora
The bard confirms that the right has a humour bypass, and replays the English Revolution on period instruments
MARIA DUARTE and ANDY HEDGECOCK review Sunny Dancer, Tony, Songs of Forgotten Trees, and The End of Oak Street
JOHN GREEN relishes a powerful and moving drama that explores the lived realities of west London’s Punjabi community
MARTIN HALL welcomes a plea for greater compassion between believer and non-believer via the framework of philosophical enquiry
Everest (12A)
Directed by Baltasar Kormakur
4/5
WRITERS William Nicholson and Simon Beaufoy’s gritty dramatisation of Jon Krakauer’s bestseller Into Thin Air tells the true story of two different expeditions trying to climb the world’s highest mountain in 1996, when freak conditions caused the death of eight mountaineers.
“I am very proud of this film,” director Baltasar Kormakur told us at the screening of his visually impressive film and he’s right to be.
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