May, 2008
Arts & Culture - Thursday, May 29, 2008 16:03 - 1 Comment
Review – Le Grand Voyage
Against his wishes, Reda (Nicolas Cazale), a young French man, is forced to drive his Moroccan father from the south of France to make the 'hajj', the Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca.
Arts & Culture - Thursday, May 29, 2008 15:56 - 0 Comments
Review – The Treatment
Review – The Treatment Written by Martin Crimp. Directed by Sam Grafton. Hicham Yezza First, a disclaimer: I’m NOT a Martin Crimp fan, too many of his lines have that Becket-light scent as far as am concerned, but after watching this, I at least, at last, understand why it won (among other things) the John […]Arts & Culture - Thursday, May 29, 2008 15:52 - 0 Comments
Review – Road to Guantanamo
Review – Road to Guantanamo (dir. Michael Winterbottom) by Alistair Nixon In Ian McEwan’s Saturday, Henry Perowne speaks of September 11th 2001 as his eighteen year old son’s induction into international affairs; “his initiation, in front of the TV, before the dissolving towers was intense, but he adapted quickly.” It is a statement that is […]
Features - Thursday, May 29, 2008 14:55 - 2 Comments
The future of the world – as seen from an airport
by Hicham Yezza Airports are salty wounds, full of tight air and crimson stale tears and often, when sitting rigidly on an Africa-to- Europe flight, I can feel the passengers are wounds inside wounds: bundles of dry nerves in a bath of dry uncertainty.
