MARIA DUARTE recommends a remarkable study of the friendship between a Palestinian and a Pakistani, broken by a hostile state
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Cinema round-up: 5th December 2014
Review of St Vincent, Get Santa, Men, Women & Children, Black Sea and Hello Carter
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
St Vincent (12A), directed by Ted Melfi
4/5
A grumpy old man’s unlikely friendship with a young boy which becomes life-changing might spell sentimentality and heart-warming cliches.
But not when the wonderfully acerbic Bill Murray is playing the drunken, gambling and hedonistic curmudgeon who, on the face of it, has no redeeming qualities. Yet Murray gives him an unfathomable charm and humour as he keeps it edgy and real in a superlative performance.
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