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The Handmaid's Tale

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Review: Mass Franz Kranz’s surprising debut, a stripped-back, chamber piece examination of forgiveness, offers a timely lesson for a divided world. Mass (2021) is the emotionally arresting and technically adept debut from writer-director Fran Kranz. Two couples – Gail and Jay (Martha Plimpton, Jason Isaacs) and Linda and Richard (Ann Dowd, Reed Birney) – meet […]

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Review: The Handmaid’s Tale

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In 1985, during a decade characterised by fervent sexual politics, Margaret Atwood published her landmark dystopian novel, “The Handmaid’s Tale”. It prophesises that in the near future, America has been turned into a totalitarian theocracy called Gilead in which fertile women, dubbed “Handmaids”, are owned by the state and forced to partake in a form […]