RITA DI SANTO draws attention to a new film that features Ken Loach and Jeremy Corbyn, and their personal experience of media misrepresentation
Timely tale of terror
MARIA DUARTE recommends an acutely contemporary film on the consequences of a neonazi atrocity
JULIA TOPPIN recommends Patti Smith’s eloquent memoir that wrestles with the beauty and sorrow of a lifetime
MARJORIE MAYO welcomes an account of family life after Oscar Wilde, a cathartic exercise, written by his grandson
KEN COCKBURN guides us through a survey of Chekov’s early short fiction, and the groundwork it laid for his later masterpieces
ANDY HEDGECOCK revels in a hugely enjoyable but deadly serious examination of the 1930s, that is an indictment of our own era
The bard distills our hellish times into fiery words
In the Fade (18)
Directed by Fatih Akin
INCREASING attacks on immigrants and the rise of fascism and neonazi white supremacists are the focus of this nail-biting drama, which also explores how far a woman would go to seek retribution for the deaths of her loved ones in a vicious terrorist attack.
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MARIA DUARTE is gripped by a tense drama set almost entirely in a car as distressed parents try to rescue their wayward daughter
MARIA DUARTE recommends a tense thriller that uses Palestinian characters to explore the predicament of migrants in Europe
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