11 June 2013

Cinema

ginger and rosa

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Sally Potter’s GINGER AND ROSA, screened at the 2013 Sydney Film Festival, is a lovely film about two teenage girls on the cusp of growing up and of England’s transfer from its post World War II gloom to the swinging …

Theatre

betrayal

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Director Kirill Serebrennikov’s film BETRAYAL, seen at the current Sydney Film Festival, is an engrossing and fascinating film.

The film opens in a doctor’s surgery where we meet the two main characters. A doctor, credited as She, and played with …

Theatre

electra

There is no let-up in Richard Hillier’s dark , intense revival of Sophocles’ ELECTRA. As we walk down the narrow hallway to the theatre we are confronted, on either side, with women  dressed in black robes moaning against the walls. …

Cinema

midnight’s children

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If ever there was a film which produced mixed feelings, it is MIDNIGHT’S CHILDREN, the film adaptation of Salman Rushdie’s prize- winning novel of the same name.

At its core this is a tried and true theme of babies, both …

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