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
The 33 (12A)
Directed by Patricia Riggen
3/5
DIRECTOR Patricia Riggen’s heart is undoubtedly in the right place in creating this visually effective reconstruction of the increasingly desperate race against time to rescue 33 miners trapped underground in a collapsed mine in Chile.
But reconstructing the 2010 disaster, covered in real life and real time on television, unavoidably creates a major dramatic problem in a feature film.
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