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Vida
Hard-hitting series exposes the gentrification process ravaging US cities
SISTER ACT: Michel Prada and Melissa Barrera in Vida
RON JACOBS enjoys a great tale, told by a US communist, of the lives of working-class New Yorkers
BRENT CUTLER searches a new history of contemporary Iran for an understanding of the Islamic Republic, finding both interesting detail and glaring omissions
MARIA DUARTE recommends the true story of the remarkable woman who sued Donald Trump for sexual assault not once, but twice
KENNY MacASKILL is disappointed by a polemical, rather than factual, account of the Lone Star State and its political path since the civil war
PAUL DONOVAN is fascinated by the lives of Charles and Mary Bagot, and the insight this biography shines on the morals of pre-Victorian society
GORDON PARSONS appreciates fine performances and a feel for ambiguity, but misses the music of the dialogue
REPORTS of a new kind of “white flight” to the suburbs, as in the 1960s, are currently all over the news in the US.
But this time it is also a flight from Covid-19 in beleaguered cities to the supposed safety of rural areas and the suburbs.
This flight is fuelling the decades-long process of gentrification and it’s the focus of a Mexican neighbourhood in the series Vida on Amazon Prime.
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