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Family misfortunes
The struggles of a single working parent and her fractious relationship with her mother are the focus of Franco Lolli's poignant drama
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
Litigante
Directed by Franco Lolli
IN MINUTE detail, Litigante centres around Colombian single mother and leading lawyer Silvia (Carolina Sanin), who is juggling raising her young son (Antonio Martinez), taking care of her ill-tempered cancer-battling mother Leticia (Leticia Gomez) and dealing with a major corruption scandal at work.
When she meets and begins to fall for Abel (Vladimir Duran), a radio presenter and journalist, after a rocky start it is one too many balls to keep in the air and it seems she is heading for a nervous breakdown.
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