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: January 6, 2023
MARIA DUARTE reviews of A Man Called Otto, Piggy and The Enforcer
Mariana Trevino as Marisol and Tom Hanks as Otto Anderson
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
A Man Called Otto (15)
Directed by Marc Forster
★★★★
IT IS always a worry when a superb foreign film is remade for the US and British markets just because viewers detest reading subtitles.
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