What a year! We’re all in need of some light relief – here we pick out the top films, books and music reviewed by New Internationalist in 2017
Barry Jenkins’ Moonlight (NI 500) was a magnificent drama about a boy growing up gay in Miami, who ends up dealing drugs and whose only real friend gets back in touch. It was about a life of anguish and withdrawal, but with, finally, the possibility of fellowship, intimacy and happiness.
A Quiet Passion (NI 501), by Terence Davies, depicted the poet Emily Dickinson – a smart, funny, caring young woman, so full of life – buried by loneliness and the expectations of her time and place.
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