A complaint often laid at the feet of the so-called European capital, Brussels, is that it is a boring and humourless place. Trump charmingly called it a “hellhole”, and the French poet Charles Baudelaire called it a “city of apes” after he was forced to leave Paris in disgrace.
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My first visit to Longborough Festival Opera proved a delight.
An apparent deadpan simplicity masks intriguing ambiguity in this captivating photorealist work.
One film is brooding and introverted, the other full of revenge, Western-style. Both are well worth a watch.
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