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Film round-up: November 12, 2021
Maria Duarte and Van Connor review Becoming Cousteau, Cry Macho, You Will Die at Twenty, Natural Light and Shepherd
Captain Jacques-Yves Cousteau

Becoming Cousteau (12A)
Directed by Liz Garbus
★★★★

THE intrepid life, work and legacy of inventor, explorer, environmentalist and film-maker extraordinaire Captain Jacques-Yves Cousteau is celebrated and examined in this riveting new documentary.

Co-produced by two of his children and featuring a wealth of never-before-seen archive footage, Oscar-nominated director Liz Garbus delivers an engrossing and fresh portrait of this extraordinary man who among other things invented the Aqualung, discovered the oil reserves that made Abu Dhabi wealthy and won an Oscar and the Palme d’Or for his 1956 classic, The Silent World.

Cry Macho (12)
Directed by Clint Eastwood
★★★

You Will Die at Twenty (12A)
Directed by Amjad Abu Alala
★★★★

Natural Light (15)
Directed by Denes Nagy
★★★★

Shepherd (15)
Directed by Russell Owen
★★★

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