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All You Need is Death: hallucinatory horror captures the alchemical power of Irish folk ballads
Two musicologists obsessed with field recordings of Irish folk ballads uncover the dark, destructive secrets of an ancient song in Paul Duane’s chaotic and original low-budget folk horror.
By Roger Luckhurst
The Book of Clarence: a messy, genre-blending Biblical epic
By Arjun Sajip
Bye Bye Love, 50th anniversary: this gender-fluid couple-on-the-run movie had no precedent in Japanese cinema
By Tony Rayns
If Only I Could Hibernate: a beautifully crafted Mongolian drama
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