Blogs in December 2019

The Hanged Man of Saint-Pholien 5th December 2019

A first ink drawing showed a hanged man swinging from a gallows on which perched an enormous crow. And there were at least twenty other etchings and pen or pencil sketches that had the same leitmotif of hanging. On...

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The Death of Murat Idrissi 4th November 2019

Two venturesome women on a journey through the land of their fathers and mothers. A wrong turn. A bad decision. They had no idea, when they arrived in Morocco, that their usual freedoms as young European women would not...

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Dream Story 5th July 2019

Probably based on Vienna. Fridolin is a doctor living and working in a town – perhaps Vienna, though this is less important than the fact that it is in Austria… where psychoanalysis has its roots. He has a wife...

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You Would Have Missed Me 3rd June 2019

A family is torn apart by their dream of a better future in the West. A true story narrated through the eyes of a child. West Germany, early 1960s: A little girl arrives with her parents from East Germany...

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Turbulence 27th April 2019

Twelve people on the move around planet Earth, twelve individual lives, each in turmoil, and each in some way touching the next. In this nuanced and deeply moving sequence, David Szalay’s diverse protagonists circumnavigate the world in twelve plane...

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