GORDON PARSONS admires a version of Marlowe’s grim tragedy that strips it down to its gay essentials
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The Star's critic MARIA DUARTE Reviews of Twiggy, Mickey 17, Day of the Fight, and Marching Powder
When Cassy’s father fails to connect with his daughter — and misses out on
an evening in the Bitter End — a stranger’s self-mocking charm brings seething resentment.
The Bard encounters Laibach’s revival of their 1987 album Opus Dei, and is stirred to verse
ANDREW MURRAY is compelled by the moment of revolution in British history when Parliament had political intimacy with society
GAVIN O’TOOLE welcomes a masterful study of gang behaviour in the favelas of Sao Paulo
Helen Colley introduces this year’s ScreenCuba film festival with an exclusive offer to Morning Star readers
DENNIS BROE appreciates the work of TV writer Steven Knight, and his systematic exposure of the debilitating effects of British capitalism
Twiggy (12A)
Directed by Sadie Frost
★★★★
LESLEY HORNBY, a working-class girl from Neasden, was just 16 when she was discovered in 1966, taking the modelling world by storm with her unique androgynous look, and becoming the face of London and the swinging ’60s.
Better known as Twiggy, she was initially told she was too short and too thin to ever be a model, plus she had no bust. She also spoke with a Cockney accent which was unheard of for a model at that time.
This fascinating documentary, directed by Sadie Frost, chronicles the meteoric rise of Britain’s first supermodel and reveals the woman behind the icon as Twiggy tells her story first hand for the first time. It is riveting viewing.
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