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Heart of the Beast review: ‘Brad Pitt stays in his comfort zone’ ★★ - The Jewish Chronicle (opens the original)
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I worry about Brad Pitt. To those who say you should have his problems I say fair enough. But Brad needs magic I tell you. He needs the kind of magic that turns a beefcake heartthrob into a fascinating character actor, thus revealing hitherto hidden acting depths that are normally assumed to only exist in the unbeautiful. It is the kind of magic that transformed Hugh Grant from a hapless floppy-haired Englishman into the most compelling presence in any film he appears in. On a bigger scale it is
Just an Illusion review: ‘Are we French, Jewish or African?’★★★★ - The Jewish Chronicle (opens the original)
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It is a truth not so universally acknowledged that a Jewish story set in one part of the world is recognisable to Jews in every other part of the world. Take the latest and most personal film by Éric Toledano and Olivier Nakache. The French writer directors have combined their respective backgrounds to convey life growing up in a Sephardi family in the suburbs of Paris during the 1980s, just as as they did. Married couple Yves (Louis Garrel) and Sandrine (Camille Cottin) play first- generation i
A Month in the Country review: Who cares about the fate of these privileged Russians? ★★★ - The Jewish Chronicle (opens the original)
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Ivan Turgenev’s play, which was first seen in 1872, presaged Chekhov by placing Russia’s wealthy class centre stage. He, too, was fascinated with how its privileged classes wiled away empty summer days in the country. The works are often described as plotless. But there is nothing more tense than the upheaval of a seemingly permanent status quo. In this 1991 translation by Brian Friel that process has already started when we first encounter Sophie Okonedo’s Natalya. With a permanent thousand-yar
Annie Wobbler (Revisited) review: Arnold Wesker’s working-class women tread the boards again’ ★★★ - The Jewish Chronicle (opens the original)
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In this era of celebrity casting and musical adaptations, punchy writing combined with commanding performance is vanishingly rare in theatre. That sense of experiencing these near forgotten ingredients pervades this engrossing revival (with additions) of Sir Arnold Wesker’s cycle of one-woman plays. Wesker, the Jewish playwright whose pressure-cooker work The Kitchen (1957), followed by his trilogy Chicken Soup with Barley, Roots and I’m Talking about Jerusalem, placed him at the forefront of Br
One Night Only review: ‘a tick box of unlikely situations’ ★★ - The Jewish Chronicle (opens the original)
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What if Congress decreed a mandate that pre-marital sex was only allowed once a year? The idea might just past muster as political satire, the law being a right-wing attempt to instil old-school morals on a liberal society (the film is set in New York) by imposing Saudi-like laws on the country. A TV pundit declares that to be an incel is now a badge of honour. Every unmarried person has “bio sensors” on their wrists that turn green on the evening sexual freedom arrives. Yet this is rom-com and
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