MARIA DUARTE recommends a remarkable study of the friendship between a Palestinian and a Pakistani, broken by a hostile state
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A flying visit to the invisible
MARIA DUARTE recommends a film exploring the punishing world of work endured by poor women in France, and the ethical questions raised by seeking to highlight their plight
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
Between Two Worlds (12A)
Directed by Emmanuel Carrere
A WELL-KNOWN author goes undercover as a cleaner to investigate the hardships, insecure employment and poverty suffered by France’s invisible female workforce in this insightful drama posing ethical questions.
Based on French investigative journalist Florence Aubena’s book The Night Cleaner, about her real-life experiences on this front, it stars Juliette Binoche as Marianne Winckler, who breaks all ties with her middle-class life and heads to the northern port city of Caen to find employment — and the contents of her next book.
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