JON BALDWIN recommends a provocative assertion of how working-class culture can rethink knowledge
For Laura - with love and squalor
MARIA DUARTE recommends a tough love-story that unfolds among mental health issues, drug addiction and inadequate housing
Treading Water / Pic: IMDb
These are vivid accounts of people’s experiences of far-right violence along with documentation of popular resistance, says MARJORIE MAYO
The Star's critic MARIA DUARTE, JOHN GREEN and ANGUS REID review An Army of Women, Julie Keeps Quiet, The Friend and The Ugly Stepsister
GORDON PARSONS squirms at a production that attempts to update Shakespeare’s comedy to a tale of Premier League football
Above a Gothic bar just down from Brighton station, something spooky is happening, suggests JAMES WALSH
PETER MASON is enthralled by an assembly of objects, ancient and modern, that have lain in the mud of London’s river
MIK SABIERS enjoys the theatrical feminist six piece who have a lot of fun that the audience feeds off as the set rolls on
Treading Water (18)
Directed by Gino Evans
★★★
SET in Manchester, Gino Evans’s powerful and hard-hitting directorial debut feature shines a light on the lack of opportunity afforded to many people in British society whose struggles and plight are overlooked in film.
Part character study, and part love story, it is viewed against the backdrop of mental health issues, drug addiction and inadequate housing as it follows Danny (Joe Gill) as he is released from prison and then faces the tough reality of living in supported accommodation.
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