Hints and tips:
...It’s a worthy companion piece to Andrei Zvyagintsev’s Russian masterpiece Loveless — except that here the child is all too present, the camera dwelling on his terrified, vulnerable face. ★★★★☆...
...In short order, the boy, a blond-haired moppet named Julien (Thomas Gioria), is being picked up for his day with dad, and Antoine is a bully from the start....
...Merivel: A Man of His Time, by Rose Tremain, Chatto & Windus, RRP£18.99, 341 pages This is a happy moment for aficionados of pedigree historical fiction: first Hilary Mantel’s high-definition Thomas Cromwell...
...Chris Ofili waxes lyrical on Titian’s “Diana and Actaeon”: “Diana’s loveless gaze conducts the Pied Piper’s last symphony.”...
...His sons have had a loveless childhood and the older is a trust fund hippy, while Julian still sustains himself at night by dreaming that his childhood pony is talking to him....
...This modern-day Scheherazade is lent some much-needed charm by the velvety voice of actor Sian Thomas....
...According to Dylan Thomas “someone you don’t like who drinks as much as you do”. It’s a good joke....
...Other scenes have a simple gale-force candour about the refugees we’d all be if there were asylums from loveless marriages or bickering families....
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