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High-Rise demolition
ALAN FRANK is disappointed by the film adaptation of JG Ballard’s dystopian class-war novel
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
High-Rise (15)
Directed by Ben Wheatley
3/5
WITH Nicolas Roeg as director in mind, producer Jeremy Thomas bought the screen rights to JG Ballard’s extraordinary dystopian novel in 1975.
Some 40 years later, funded by Channel 4 and the BFI, High-Rise finally emerges, lamentably without Roeg at the helm.
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