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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RITA DI SANTO reports on an outstanding competition
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
MEXICAN director Alfonso Cuaron and his jury gave the festival’s Golden Lio top prize to the rookie Venezuelan film-maker Lorenzo Vigas’s From Afar.
Set in Caracas, it tells the story of the wealthy Armando (Alfredo Castro), middle-aged and struggling to connect to others emotionally, who develops an obsession with young petty criminal Elder (Luis Silva, pictured).
Their first encounter is a violent one but this doesn’t discourage his fascination with the handsome teenager.
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