MARIA DUARTE, FIONA O’CONNOR and ANDY HEDGECOCK review Savage House, Enzo, Madfabulous, and Erupcja
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MARIA DUARTE samples some hard-hitting offerings at this year's 64th BFI London Film Festival
ROUSING: Steve McQueen's Mangrove
CHRIS SEARLE recommends a work of love and deep admiration for a great musician
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
THIS year’s BFI London Film Festival has not been immune to the effects of the coronavirus, holding virtual screenings for the first time.
Blurring the line between cinema and television, its opening film Mangrove (pictured) is one of five original films in the Small Axe stable, created by award-winning director Steve McQueen for the BBC.
They are based on the real-life experiences of London’s West Indian community and Mangrove follows the true story of Frank Crichlow (a superlative Shaun Parkes), the owner of the Mangrove Restaurant in Notting Hill, who became the target of police harassment.
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