Olivia Laing
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British writer and critic; author of The Lonely City (2016), Everybody (2021) and The Garden Against Time (2024), the essays Funny Weather (2020) and the…
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Performance (opens rcmnd.app)
“If we’re talking about the souring of the 1960s, there is no better account than Performance, a gangster film drenched in paranoia that is really about the untethering of identity itself.”
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I Know Where I’m Going! (opens rcmnd.app)
“I could also have picked A Canterbury Tale or The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp from the Powell and Pressburger canon, but I Know Where I’m Going! edges ahead for sheer buoyancy.”
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Goodbye to Berlin (opens rcmnd.app)
“In Goodbye to Berlin, he foraged from his own life to write a semi-fictionalised version of his own experiences, at first sexual and domestic and then political, in Weimar/Nazi-era Germany.”
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Performance (opens rcmnd.app)