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Motherhood, madness and melodrama

  • By Ryan Gilbey
  • 27 November

Heavy-handed direction turns one woman's ordeal into a sensationalist affair
Changeling (15)
dir: Clint Eastwood

Thanks for the memories

  • By Ryan Gilbey
  • 20 November

An unsettling and inspired exploration of how the trauma of war affects the mind

Waltz With Bashir (18)
dir: Ari Folman

007 Bolivian socialist?

  • By Emma Felber
  • 14 November

The plot of the Quantum of Solace makes reference to a real struggle carried out by the social movements of Bolivia - but it wasn't an action hero that secured changes, it was ordinary people

The age of uncertainty

  • By Tim Adams
  • 13 November

The painters and photographers of the First World War were resolutely on the side of the ordinary soldier. Today, artists have an ambiguous attitude to conflict in the Middle East, and struggle to express its true horrors

No place like home

  • By Rebecca Davies
  • 13 November

Fernando Meirelles has made his name with films inspired by the turmoil in his native Brazil. He tells Rebecca Davies why Hollywood can't compete with this golden age of Latin American cinema

Killing to be cool

  • By Ryan Gilbey
  • 13 November

Black-leather glam over-romanticises the real story of this 1970s guerrilla gang
The Baader Meinhof Complex (18) dir: Uli Edel

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An odyssey in black and white

An odyssey in black and white

A season of vintage South African films takes us on an atmospheric - if occasionally bizarre - journey back through the dark days of apartheid

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