ALAN McGUIRE welcomes a biography of the French semiologist and philosopher
Film round-up: January 10 2018
The Star's critics ALAN FRANK and MARIA DUARTE review this week's releases: Darkest Hour, A Woman's Life, My Life Story, and Eric Clapton: Life in 12 Bars
ALEX HALL is frustrated by a book that ducks a clear definition of terrorism and fails to perceive the role of the state in sponsoring it
JOE GILL wholeheartedly recommends an eloquent manifesto: how to change the world one local project at a time
Inspired by a photograph, a unique memorial in Michigan immortalises US true labour heroes. MICHAL BONCZA recalls a great story rarely told
MARIA DUARTE, LEO BOIX and ANGUS REID review Brides, Dead of Winter, A Night Like This, and The Librarians
MARIA DUARTE is entertained by a wry portrait of befuddled resistance to US authoritarianism
Darkest Hour (PG)
Directed by Joe Wright
4/5
IF THE Golden Globes — showbiz's annual orgy of self-adoration — are to be taken seriously, then Gary Oldman, eminently a well-deserved winner of the best performance by an actor award, should already be making space on his shelves for his Oscar and BAFTA.
His portrait of Winston Churchill in a complex and demanding role is a tour de force. In lesser hands, it might simply have become a tour de farce.
But Oldman is riveting as we follow Churchill’s battle to decide whether to negotiate with Hitler when the Allies seemed to be on the brink of defeat and he faced life-or-death decisions on how to save British forces trapped by the nazis in Dunkirk.
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