MARY CONWAY revels in a powerful reminder that human lives are not defined by physical perfection
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Documenting the human cost of poverty gap
by Brian Precious
PAUL DONOVAN recommends the fine performances in this account of the pre-war meeting between the US president and the British king
TECLYN AROD relishes an intimate celebration of jazz improvisation that mixes local and national musicians
The missing sister, the vengeful WAG, cruise ship claustrophobia, and reanimated Avengers
Three great releases of lost concerts by Duke Ellington Orchestra, John Taylor & Stan Sulzman, and Joe Henderson
To rescue Kahlo from the clutches of the corporate art market, we need to acknowledge the overt and covert political dimensions of the work, demands GAVIN O’TOOLE
WHAT makes The Divide stand out as documentary on the ever-widening gap between rich and poor is that it focuses very much on the human stories of those affected by the vicious attacks on the most vulnerable in society.
No cinematic essay on macroeconomics, it’s a slice-of-life look at seven people brought to their knees by poverty in Britain and the US.
There’s Keith, whose US prison has turned him into a brutalised volcano of resentment, and Rochelle from Newcastle, who doesn’t get respect for her carer job and whose long hours don’t allow her time for her kids. Ostracised by neighbours in the wealthy gated community she thought she’d “escaped” to, Jen in Sacramento endures a waking nightmare of snobbery.
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