Rosa Martinez

Rosa Martinez is the overly defiant kid of two Colombian immigrants. Sometimes they write and sometimes they drum.
The Kids Are Not All Right: Jean-Gabriel Périot’s ‘A German Youth’
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The Kids Are Not All Right: Jean-Gabriel Périot’s ‘A German Youth’

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 / 21 January 2020

Jean-Gabriel Périot's documentary on the rise and fall of Germany's radical Red Army Faction (RAF), A German Youth, warns how each generation's sins can evoke violent trauma amongst its progeny.

First As Warning, Then As Threnody: On Cuarón’s ‘Children of Men’
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First As Warning, Then As Threnody: On Cuarón’s ‘Children of Men’

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 / 4 November 2019

With his prescient film Children of Men, director Alfonso Cuarón hasn’t flipped Hegel onto his head, as Marx and Engels were accused of doing – he’s knocked him off his feet.