Back from a mini tour of Yorkshire and Stockport and cheering for supporting act Indignation Meeting
Film round-up: June 20, 2024
The Star's critic MARIA DUARTE reviews Green Border, Fancy Dance, Before Dawn and The Exorcism
Round up
ALISTAR FINDLAY is mesmerised by this multiple ‘Visions of Scotland’ assault on the audience’s eyes and senses
The Star's critics ANGUS REID, ANDY HEDGECOCK and MICHAL BONCZA reviews I Am Love, The Penguin Lessons, Freaky Tales, The Thicket
MAYER WAKEFIELD has reservations about the direction of a play centered on a DVLA re-training session for three British-Pakistani motorists
New releases from Steve Knightley, Jupiter & Okwess, Jason Palmer, Lisa Knapp and Gerry Driver, Kin'Gongolo Kiniata, Ingrid Laubrock/Tom Rainey, Dan Sealey, Simin Tande, PAZ
JOHN GREEN relishes photography that unfolds a longstanding and poetic relationship with Leeds
A uncomfortably misogynistic authorial voice that sometimes seems to lack insight troubles FIONA O’CONNOR
Green Border (15)
Directed by Agnieszka Holland
★★★★★
IN this, worldwide refugee week, comes a timely and powerful yet harrowing immigration drama which takes a fresh look at the migration crisis in Europe as it weighs up the inhumanity refugees face against the compassion.
Shot in black and white, three-times Oscar-nominated Polish director Agnieszka Holland pulls no punches in this brutally tough-to-watch drama which takes place in the no man’s land between Belarus and Poland. also known as the “green border.”
This narrative fiction explores the issue via the stories of a Syrian family who are heading to Sweden via Poland, Julia (Maja Ostaszewska) a 50-year-old therapist newly turned activist, and Jan (Tomasz Wlosok) a border guard whose wife is expecting their first child.
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