๐ฅ Read this trending post from Culture | The Guardian ๐ ๐ **Category**: Film,Documentary films,Ukraine,Culture,Europe,World news โ
**What Youโll Learn**: โMMy son, my sun, my beloved child. A grief-stricken mother wipes the face of her son, a soldier lying in a coffin, killed on the front line. Another week, another Ukrainian film about the devastating toll of war. This documentary by director Yuri Rezhinsky follows two evacuation missions in Ukraine: teams of volunteers transport the elderly and vulnerable from their homes to safety away from the front; And the process of returning the remains of dead soldiers to their families.…
โจ Discover this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian ๐ ๐ **Category**: Wuthering Heights,Film,Yorkshire,Women,Society,Film industry,Film adaptations,Culture,Books,Business,UK news โ
**What Youโll Learn**: eMerald Fennell's choices for her remake of Wuthering Heights have already been much scrutinized. In addition to the obvious "whitewashing" of Heathcliff by casting Jacob Elordi in the role, there's the fact that 35-year-old Margot Robbie is playing a woman 20 years her junior.Plus, they're Australian, not British, and certainly not from Yorkshire. Fennell has defended her casting choices as a โpersonal fantasyโ โ but amid all the ridicule and chatter surrounding the film and its countless deviations…
๐ฅ Discover this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian ๐ ๐ **Category**: Stage,Culture,Theatre,Cynthia Erivo,Bram Stoker ๐ **What Youโll Learn**: AAre people born evil? asks Glinda, the โgood witchโ played by Ariana Grande in Wicked, the musical that stars Cynthia Erivo as the green-skinned intruder, Elphaba. Bram Stoker's classic story about the evil element knows the answer to this question. Dracula, the vampire of Ur and the ultimate outsider to the literary canon, is played by Erivo, along with every other character in this deliciously sinister tale of the blood-sucking count.Except he's not deliciously sinister in director Kip Williams' theater…
๐ฅ Explore this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian ๐ ๐ **Category**: Film,Comedy films,Hong Kong,Drama films,Asia Pacific,World news,Culture,Comedy ๐ก **What Youโll Learn**: TIts glossy, gauzy homage to old-fashioned Cantonese nightlife sometimes feels like a Wong Kar-Wai film โ but it's actually closer to something like Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story. Hong Kong comedy star Dayu Wong plays Foon, the manager of EJ Entertainment, the last nightclub standing in the fading East Tsim Sha Tsui district. The company's takeover suddenly means that his ex-wife Dame V (Cantopop singer Sammi Cheng) is in charge and intends to replace the regular flight…
๐ Read this trending post from Culture | The Guardian ๐ ๐ **Category**: Film,Thrillers,Science fiction and fantasy films,Culture ๐ **What Youโll Learn**: pPerhaps it's the general obsession with improving every aspect of life that has driven the abundance of time-loop thrillers in recent years, such as Predestination, Looper, Edge of Tomorrow et al. The McManus brothers' Redux Redux is a decently handled example from the lower budget end. It traps a bereaved mother and a naughty girl in a Sisyphean cycle of revenge, playing out as an intimate version of the Terminator where the credibility of 12-step grief recovery, not…
๐ Explore this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian ๐ ๐ **Category**: Stage,Culture,Theatre,Patrick Marber ๐ก **What Youโll Learn**: Strindberg claimed to have written "Miss Julie" during a month of "forced celibacy" in 1888. The resulting tragedy had a pent-up, snarling energy. Patrick Marber's 1995 version, originally written for television, unfolds in a similar 75 minutes โ but focuses less on sex than on British class warfare.We are at the country house of one of our Labor peers, on the night of the party's landslide election victory in 1945. As the staff celebrates offstage - Chattanooga choo choo and in…
๐ฅ Discover this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian ๐ ๐ **Category**: Berlin film festival 2026,Film,Protest,Iran,Documentary films,Culture,Middle East and north Africa,World news,Human rights,Activism,Berlin film festival ๐ **What Youโll Learn**: FWidely circulated video footage from Iran in late 2022 showed a woman being shot by security forces while filming a bloody crackdown on anti-government protests on her phone. The victim's last words were: "Film it!"Mehraneh Soleimian graduated from art school on the same day, and that last wish led her and her partner, Amin Pakparfar, to debut their short documentary at the Berlin Film Festival on Tuesday. โPowerful Memoriesโ is…
๐ฅ Read this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian ๐ ๐ **Category**: English National Opera (ENO),Opera,Classical music,Music,Culture ๐ก **What Youโll Learn**: WWhat is the worst crime in Mahagony, the spiderweb city built by three cons in order to extract a living from stupid tourists? Not having any cash. ENO knows exactly what this predicament feels like. However, Jimmy Manton's new production of Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht's opera somehow manages to make frugality a virtue, but it still feels substantive.For starters, it's big. In Brechtian style, the breadth and depth of the Colosseum are open: it feels as if…
๐ฅ Discover this trending post from Culture | The Guardian ๐ ๐ **Category**: Romance films,Film,Audrey Hepburn,Culture,Sean Connery,Robert Downey Jr,Michelle Pfeiffer,Frank Capra,Marisa Tomei ๐ **What Youโll Learn**: Love me If you dareIt's been a long time since I've watched it, and it's one of those movies that I couldn't watch again after the first viewing in case it would be disappointing. The way they keep upping the ante as the film progresses struck me as absolutely perfect at the time. Adam's creationMauriceA beautiful love story that will appeal to gay and straight audiences alike. LoponshynThe truth about cats and dogsA somewhat…
๐ฅ Read this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian ๐ ๐ **Category**: Architecture,Art and design,Culture,Environment,Design,Books,Recycling,Waste,Earthquakes โ
**What Youโll Learn**: 'I โI don't like waste,โ says Shigeru Ban. It's a simple phrase - but it sums up everything about the Japanese architect's work. It takes materials that others might ignore or dismissโfrom cardboard tubes to beer boxes, Styrofoam to shipping containersโand subjects them to a kind of chemistry, smoothing out rough edges and turning fragility into durability.The result is an always ingenious and poetically strange scavenger architecture that finds beauty and purpose in everyday life. From high-end shops to refugee…
