Richard Cotter

Art for art’s sake. Art felt and artful.

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happening:

Another gem from the recent Alliance Francaise Film Festival getting a well deserved general release is HAPPENING.

This is the story of Anne, a young woman who decides to terminate an unwanted pregnancy to finish her studies and escape the

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farewell, mr. haffman: hello, gestapo

A justifiable favourite at the recent Alliance Francais Film Festival, FAREWELL, MR HAFFMAN gets a well deserved general release just in time for Easter.

Mr. Haffman is a Jewish jeweller practising his craftsmanship in Paris as the Nazi’s occupy the

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the colony: a vision splendid

The language, its history, its demise, the shift towards bilingualism in the most remote corner of Europe overshadowed by stories of death, of hatred, of fear, of tit-for-tat, retaliation on top of retaliation, a downward bilious spiral until the

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ambulance: bloated bombast

Call an ambulance!

AMBULANCE is Michael Bray’s latest blaze across the filament of his imagination, a far fetched stretcher of disbelief, the profligate bastard child from a celluloid union between Heat and Speed, failing to live up to its heralded

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nobody has to know: forgetting to remember

Everybody has to know that NOBODY HAS TO KNOW is about knowing and not knowing.

Amnesia brought on by a stroke opens Phil, a Belgian migrant working in a remote Scottish rural post, to spectacular revelation.

Apparently he was lover

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in love: a memoir of love and loss

Amy Bloom blubbers buckets in her latest book, IN LOVE: A Memoir of Love and Loss. Unless you are made of stone, by the end you will join her.

IN LOVE is a two hundred page love letter to her

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the spook: alpha bravo new theatre

Testing, testing, one, two, three. Transmission begins from Alpha Bravo. Listen very carefully, I don’t have much time and I think I’m being watched. And bugged. So, I’ll whisper.

As instructed, I attended New Theatre to surveil their production of

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nowhere special: something special

NOWHERE SPECIAL is something special.

Single parent John, a 35-year-old window cleaner, has dedicated his life to bringing up his 4-year-old son, Michael, after the child’s mother left them soon after giving birth.

When John is diagnosed with a

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it snows in benidorm: a reign in spain

Glacial pace makes IT SNOWS IN BENIDORM feel like its title should be altered to It’s Slow in Benidorm.

Timothy Spall plays Peter, a man of little ambition who has worked in a bank in Manchester all his life.

After

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