MARIA DUARTE recommends a remarkable study of the friendship between a Palestinian and a Pakistani, broken by a hostile state
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Reviews of Some Kind of Heaven, Those Who Wish Me Dead, Undergods and Servants
SURREAL: Some Kind of Heaven
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
Some Kind of Heaven
Directed by Lance Oppenheim
★★★★
HAILED as the “Disneyland for retirees,” this fascinating documentary explores life inside the largest retirement community in the US, in Florida of course, but from the point of view of those residents that didn’t fit into the fantasy.
Lance Oppenheim’s compelling and surreal debut feature follows four people who moved to The Villages to live the American Dream and find happiness, but who, living on its margins, find that their fantasy has turned into a nightmare.
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