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Saturday Review: Bruegel, Ang Lee, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Beware of Pity

Beware of Pity, Ang Lee, Viet Tanh Nguyen, Breugel

11/02/2017

Bruegel, Ang Lee, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Beware of Pity

BBC Radio 4 - Saturday Review, Bruegel, Ang Lee, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Beware of Pity

Bruegel: Defining a Dynasty, Beware of Pity, Ang Lee, Viet Thanh Nguyen's The Refugees.

Bruegel's Defining A Dynasty at The Holburne Museum in Bath, Ang Lee's Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, Viet Thanh Nguyen's The Refugees, and The Kettering Incident.

Ang Lee's Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk is the first film to utilise a shooting and projection frame rate of 120 frames per second in 3D at 4K HD resolution. In a drama which tells the story of American war heroes on leave from Iraq, will audiences be won over by what Ang Lee calls a " new immersive cinema?"

Vietnamese American writer Viet Thanh Nguyen won the Pullitzer Prize for his debut novel The Sympathizer about the Vietnam war. His new book of short stories, The Refugees, draws heavily on his own experience of arriving in America having fled Vietnam after the fall of Saigon in 1975.


Bruegel's Defining A Dynasty at The Holburne Museum in Bath is the UK's first exhibition devoted to the Bruegel dynasty and brings together 35 works produced by four different generations of the family. A key work in the exhibition is the Wedding Dance in the Open Air, an oil painting from the Holburne's own collection which, following conservation work and technical examination, can be attributed firmly to the hand of Pieter Bruegel the Younger.

The Kettering Incident is a new 8 part series on Sky Atlantic starring Elizabeth Debicki who played opposite Tom Hiddleston in BBC's hit drama The Night Manager. Shot entirely on location in Tasmania, The Kettering Incident follows a doctor (Debicki) who returns to her home town after several years overseas, only to find herself at the centre of a mystery surrounding the disappearance of a young girl.


Stefan Zweig's 1938 novel Ungueld des Herzens (Beware of Pity) brings together two of Europe's most boundary-pushing, imaginative theatre companies at the Barbican for the first time. Theatre de Complicite's Simon McBurney directs the outstanding Berlin theatre company Schaubühne in a story of a doomed romance set in the Austro-Hungarian empire just before the first world war.

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