MARIA DUARTE recommends a remarkable study of the friendship between a Palestinian and a Pakistani, broken by a hostile state
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Film round-up: February 21, 2022
Maria Duarte and Van Conner review A Bread Factory, Part One: For the Sake of Gold; A Bread Factory, Part Two: Walk With Me a While, Dog and Here Before
Andrea Riseborough in Here Before
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
A Bread Factory, Part One: For the Sake of Gold
Directed by Patrick Wang
★★★
COMPRISING of a cornucopia of different visual styles and forms, this epic drama from US indie film-maker Patrick Wang is a surreal David v Goliath tale best met with an open mind.
The first in a mini-series of Wang’s work being released in Britain for the very first time, it follows the sudden fight for a small community arts centre’s survival, which Dorothea (Tyne Daly on fine form) and Greta (Elisabeth Henry) have been running for the last 40 years.
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