DOUGLAS FIELD relishes the hard-boiled language, satire and humour of the third and last of the Harlem trilogy
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Seville Film Festival
Radical European cinema takes centre stage
Perplexed: Elia Suleiman in It Must Be Heaven
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MIK SABIERS revels in a band that ploughs an idiosyncratic furrow of expletive laden, guitar-driven alt rock
ANDY HEDGECOCK, MARIA DUARTE and ANGUS REID review Synthetic Sincerity, Our Hero, Balthazar, Heartstopper Forever, and A Year In London
The bard invites readers to a gig, raps for Clacton, and lays out the Burnham-Hurzeler conundrum
RON JACOBS recommends an important book that enhances the oppositional theories put forth by Fanon and, in doing so, remakes psychology itself
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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