20th March 2023
A deep dive into the animated collage which adapts Murakmai’s short stories. I sit down with Pierre Földes while his debut feature, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman (an animated film, adapting a handful of stories by Haruki Murakami) plays at the Glasgow Film Theatre a few blocks away. I ask him about reaching out to Murakami ...
20th March 2023
An almost promising debut, and almost successful departure from migrant narratives. Ellie Foumbi’s Our Father, The Devil (2021) has a straightforward premise. Marie, a refugee from Guinea, works as a chef in a retirement home located in a French town. When Father Patrick is appointed as the new Catholic priest at her workplace, she is ...
20th March 2023
The TV adaptation of Taylor Jenkins Reid’s novel embraces and strengthens its source material. “I’m not the muse, okay? I’m the somebody,” says the titular Daisy Jones in the first episode of Amazon Prime Video’s Daisy Jones & The Six. Over the ten-episode course of the miniseries, there’s an impressively concerted attempt to convince the ...
20th March 2023
There are clear disparities in the way certain refugees are treated by the UK Government and are portrayed in media outlets. Does this feed into our own biases, and are we feeding into the issue? A year has gone by since the outbreak of war in Ukraine. During this year, the UK and Europe have ...
20th March 2023
Will the UK Government listen to recommendations and reform human rights legislation or continue down the path of Right-wing anti-immigration policy? In the recent Universal Periodic Review (UPR) in 2022, which assesses a country’s adherence to human rights, the UK was scrutinised for its policy over the last half-decade. The UK government received over three ...
