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Peter Bradshaw

Me and You - review

There's intimacy and immediacy in this movie from the 73-year-old Bernardo Bertolucci: it's an engaging, if slight, two-hander about a troubled teenage boy, Lorenzo (Jacopo Olmo Antinori) who tells his mother he's going on a school skiing trip but instead

Theorem - review

Maybe Pasolini's playful fable of ideas is the great director's attempt to put a bomb under Italy's stagnant governing class Pasolini's Theorem - now revived nationally in cinemas as part of a retrospective - is bizarre, playful and mysterious, an absurd

First Position - review

A documentary about aspiring American ballet dancers has been fatally influenced by reality-TV feelgood values Bess Kargman's First Position is a blandly feelgood documentary about aspiring young ballet dancers. Kargman follows a handful of teens as they

Trance - review

If you thought Danny Boyle could do no wrong after the Olympic ceremony, this overcooked art heist is proof that even great directors have career blips In this country, we like our National Treasures, largely late-middle-aged men in public life of a cert