This a terrific film about a man who is not there. It won this year’s Palme d’Or for its tragi-comic depiction of a group of dissidents in Iran. It was shot secretly by the director Jafar Panahi, who was only released from his latest spell in prison after a hunger strike. A man is driving […]
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The 1960s and 70s were a time of political and social upheaval in Britain. Under the governments of Harold Wilson, it seemed that power was edging ever closer to the people, but at the same time, radical politics was racing on further to the left. When I was a student at Oxford in the late
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When I was invited to join the editorial team of “Just Beauty”, I had only recently seen the film “Conclave”, based on the Robert Harris novel of the same name, about the death of a pope and the election of a new one, and I was enthusing about it. I undertook to write a review
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The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World is a book published in 2009 by the polymath psychiatrist and philosopher Dr Iain McGilchrist. When I heard him describe his concept of thinking with the heart and mind together, it inspired to set up the justbeautyportal blogsite. I think
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