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It all started on 09/09/09. That memorable date, September 9 2009, marked the debut of theartsdesk.com.
It followed some...
Brief History of a Family review - glossy Chinese psychologi...
Brief History of a Family is a psychological thriller with a story familiar to anyone who has seen Ripley, ...
Die Zauberflöte, Royal Academy of Music review - first-rate...
Tamino in the operating theatre hallucinating serpents? Sarastro’s acolytes wheeling lit-up plasma packs? From the central part of the Overture...
Two Strangers Trying Not to Kill Each Other review - a portr...
Two Strangers Trying Not to Kill Each Other is a documentary portrait of photographer Joel Meyerowitz, acclaimed for his...
The Alto Knights review - double dose of De Niro doesn'...
The power struggle between New York crime bosses Vito Genovese and Frank Costello is one of the foundational stories of the American Mafia, though...
Album: The Horrors - Night Life
For fans of The Horrors, the headline here is that, 20 years into the career, for their sixth album, the band have lost two of their founding...
theartsdesk Q&A: director François Ozon on 'When Au...
François Ozon is France’s master of sly secrets, burying hard truths in often dazzling surfaces, from Swimming Pool’s erotic mystery of...
Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno, Irish Baroque Orchest...
Imagine if Bach had set Cardinal Benedetto Pamphili’s allegory of Beauty breaking free from Pleasure with the guidance of Time and Enlightenment:...
Mercury Rev, Islington Assembly Hall review - the august US...
The body language fascinates. Mercury Rev’s frontman Jonathan Donahue could be playing a theramin. The arm movements fit the bill, yet the...
Santosh review - powerful study of prejudice and police corr...
Held up by the censors in India though screened at Cannes and nominated for an International Oscar, Sandhya Suri’s 2024 film ...