MARIA DUARTE recommends a remarkable study of the friendship between a Palestinian and a Pakistani, broken by a hostile state
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Friday film round-up: November 6 2015
Maria Duarte and Alan Frank give their verdict on Brooklyn, Kill Your Friends, Burnt and Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse
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
Brooklyn (12A), directed by John Crowley
5/5
THE British Film Institute and the BBC deserve real congratulations for Brooklyn.
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ALAN MORRISON welcomes a new collection from the most imaginative and committed ecopoet of our time
MARY CONWAY applauds the timely revival of Miller’s study of people fatally deformed by the economics of survival
SIMON PARSONS applauds an artist who rescues and rehumanises stories of women, the victims of violence, from a feminist perspective
WILL STONE is frustrated by a performance that chooses to garble the lyrics and drown the songs in reverb