MARIA DUARTE recommends a remarkable study of the friendship between a Palestinian and a Pakistani, broken by a hostile state
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The art of dying gracefully
ALAN FRANK delights in Brian Cox’s tour de force performance in an intelligent story about a doomed Shakespearean actor
MATTHEW HAWKINS rakes through un-fancy words and flair-free summaries to find who and what might be flamboyant
PETER MASON is exhilarated by an exciting, well-considered and historically minded tribute to the great Trinidadian instrument
Reducing historical lives to ‘male’ and ‘female’ roles, we lose the nuance of those lives and a clearer understanding of past societies, suggests CLAIRE ISABELLA GILMOUR
CHRIS SEARLE relishes the genius of pianist Alexander Hawkins, his many ensembles, and his new album
The Carer (15)
Directed by Janos Edelenyi
4/5
Nowadays too many showbusiness types seem eager to provide the ever-insatiable media with their views on anything and everything at the drop of a publicist.
But these “luvvies” — actors and actresses who incline to be “particularly effusive or affected” — could very well be seen to damage performers who value their profession more than celebrity.
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