CATHERINE STEEL relishes a compelling novel about Augustus’s right hand man, but misses the politics, the cultural shifts, and more detail about his restoration of Rome
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After Bataclan
ANGUS REID is astonished by a film of exceptional empathy that addresses a collective trauma
PTSD: Virginie Efira in Paris Memories
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TONY BURKE speaks to JOEL McIVER, co-author of the biography of bluesman John Mayall
A misfit couple unhappily ever after, a dead man walking, dodgy journos, and trench art trucking
New releases from Javon Jackson, IZE Trio, and Mal Waldron Trio
PAUL DONOVAN applauds an intriguing multi-layered depiction, dominated by a stunning impersonation of Marilyn herself
EWAN CAMERON marvels at the impossible ambition, realised with dreamlike finesse of translating Italo Calvino to the stage
Paris Memories (15)
Directed by Alice Winocour
THE extraordinary benefit of having a national film culture is that this subtle and powerful medium can be used to process events of national significance for a mass audience and in an artistically satisfying and cathartic way.
But you’ll never have a national film culture until you reserve the majority of your screens for national product. That’s why it doesn’t exist in the UK (just go see what’s playing at your local Omni) but it does exist in France.
Paris Memories (a poor translation of Revoir Paris) is the kind of film that the French can make, and we cannot.
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