MAYER WAKEFIELD has reservations about the direction of a play centered on a DVLA re-training session for three British-Pakistani motorists
Reality bites in gritty dramas from the US to Kurdistan
Girls of the Sun
New releases from Steve Knightley, Jupiter & Okwess, Jason Palmer, Lisa Knapp and Gerry Driver, Kin'Gongolo Kiniata, Ingrid Laubrock/Tom Rainey, Dan Sealey, Simin Tande, PAZ
JOHN GREEN relishes photography that unfolds a longstanding and poetic relationship with Leeds
A uncomfortably misogynistic authorial voice that sometimes seems to lack insight troubles FIONA O’CONNOR
MARY CONWAY is disappointed by a production that panders – if inadvertently – to Western prejudice against China
JOHN GREEN is fascinated by a history that excavates the enormous role played by agricultural workers in recent times
ALEX HALL recommends a book that places empirical evidence at the heart of understanding racism
THE STORMY weather in Cannes matched the mood of a number of entries, with Iranian director Jarar Panahi again banned from attending the festival by the Tehran government.
Despite living under house arrest and being forbidden from making films for 20 years following accusations of producing “propaganda,” he has continued to do so and his latest, Three Faces, is a fictional commentary on life in Iran and the country’s cinema legacy, infused with sly humour.
A more forthright political statement came from veteran director Spike Lee. BlacKKKlansman is inspired by the true story of Ron Stallworth, an African-American police officer who managed to successfully infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan and become the head of a local chapter.
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