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Seville Film Festival
Radical European cinema takes centre stage
Perplexed: Elia Suleiman in It Must Be Heaven
KENNY MacASKILL relishes a fictionalised account of the life and death of the principled Irish anti-colonialist, executed for betraying his English imperial masters
FIONA O’CONNOR admires an ambitious first novel that loosens South Africa’s rainbow collective to examine the racial tensions within
Aussie mining corporation murder, Liverpudlian ex-cop amnesia, a naive vigilante tries to reset capitalism, and the riddle of the dead psychoanalyst
SYLVIA HIKINS is persuaded by an entertaining play that the true miracle of Lourdes would be for attitudes toward disability to change
JAMIE BRITTON recommends this fine analysis of the architectural, ecological and infrastructural destruction of the Gaza Strip
THE SEVILLE Film Festival showcased more than 200 films during its run last week, among them Spanish icon Pedro Almodovar’s Pain and Glory and Palestinian Elia Suleiman’s It Must Be Heaven.
Almodovar’s quasi-autobiographical drama focuses on a former film director who, back in the day, confronted Spain’s repressive attitudes, while Elia Suleiman's It Must Be Heaven is a perplexed and comic look at his surroundings as he embarks on a globetrotting tour which takes in some absurd scenarios.
In a film he’s written and in which he is protagonist, Suleiman comes across as somewhere between Buster Keaton and Jaques Tati as he explores the Palestinian experience.
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