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Published: 9 October 2008

Pick of the Indies

WITH just a week to go to the start of the London Film Festival, excitement is building about the plentiful opportunities to snuggle down in a cinema seat and watch some wonderful films.
The full list is massive – go to www.bfi.org.uk/lff for times and venues – but I can recommend the series released by Artificial Eye in time for the festival.
They have a bumper stock of incredible European films – they brought us the best foreign language film of the year Cous Cous.
I recommend catching Il Divo, by Paolo Sorrentino. Starring Toni Servillo and Anna Bonaiuto, it tells the story of Giulio Andreotti.
He has been a symbol for generations of what makes Italy work – calm and crafty, hideously well-connected, he is the personification of the state-sponsored corruption endemic in the country.
At the beginning of the 1990s, this impassive yet insinuating, ambiguous yet reassuring figure appears set to assume his seventh mandate as Prime Minister and continue his reign – until the Mafia declare war.
Definitely worth a look, as are all the other Artificial Eye releases put on for the festival.
I’m also keenly looking forward to Benicio Del Torro’s portrayal of Che Guevara in Guerrilla. Jon Lee Anderson’s book on the freedom fighter is one of the best political biographies I have ever read, and the actor used it to swot up on the life and times of the Argentinian doctor who was Castro’s right-hand man during the 1958 revolution.
On Sunday the London Socialist Film Co-op invites film studies professor Carrie Tarr to discuss the work of French director Rachid Bouchareb and the context of his work in France.
She may be joined by veterans of the Gurkha Regiment who heard this week that they have won the right to stay in Britain, in the same way their Maghrebi counterparts in France have done.
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