MARIA DUARTE recommends a remarkable study of the friendship between a Palestinian and a Pakistani, broken by a hostile state
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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
Race (PG)
Directed by Stephen Hopkins
3/5
THE saga of legendary black US athlete Jesse Owens winning four gold medals at the 1936 Olympics despite being up against Adolph Hitler’s vision of Aryan supremacy has never lost its impact.
While at times Stephen Hopkins’s film seems as much hagiographic as biographic, its anti-fascist message still hits hard despite some naive storytelling.
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