MARIA DUARTE recommends a remarkable study of the friendship between a Palestinian and a Pakistani, broken by a hostile state
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Film round-up: November 25, 2022
The Star's critic MARIA DUARTE reviews Bones And All, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio and Utama
A scene from Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
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
Bones And All (18)
Directed by Luca Guadagnino
★★★
FROM the director of Call Me By Your Name comes a tender yet terribly dark and macabre coming-of-age love story set on a road trip, with a biting twist.
Based on Camille D’Angelis young adult novel of the same name, the film, set in the 1980s, follows 18-year-old Maren (an outstanding Taylor Russell) whose loving father (Andre Holland), at the end of his wits, is forced to leave her due to her increasingly extreme appetites.
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