With Zeinab Badawi.
Followed by Weather Zeinab Badawi presents Hot Spots - Sudan at 12.45am
An homage to director Michael Powell, plus reviews of the wine-themed Sideways and Mondovino, and director Jerome Bonnell talks about Le Chignon d'Olga (which follows). Presented by Stuart Maconie. A full series follows this pilot episode this autumn.
(Free DVD for every reader: page 14; Stuart Maconie's DVD review: page 44)
Recovering from the death of his mother, a small-town teenager falls for an unattainable bookshop assistant. Hubert Benhamdine stars in Jerome Bonnell 's comic drama from 2002. In French with English subtitles. Review page 57.
A soon-to-retire teacher reflects on his 20 years in a single-room school, serving an isolated farming community, in Nicolas Philibert 's
2002 documentary. In French with English subtitles.
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Sudan: for 50 years, Sudan has been in the grip of failing governments, military coups, civil war, drought and famine. How has it come to this? Zeinab Badawi investigates
the president faces an economic crisis and hundreds are queuing to leave the country
