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The thriller ‘Blindness’, based on the novel by Nobel Prize-winning author José Saramango, opens this year’s Cannes Film Festival
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A girth in need of plumping
Ridiculous, roguish, repulsive, greedy, fat: Falstaff has to be all these. But he also has to be funny, lovable, masculine, plausible, attractive, writes Andrew Clarke
Gags without frontiers
In the first of a series about the world’s TV, Leslie Crawford looks at Spain
Willie Nelson, Hammersmith Apollo, London
Fans were hoping to renew their faith, writes Ludovic Hunter-Tilney
La Grande Magia, Semperoper, Dresden
Ninety minutes of witty new opera, writes Shirley Apthorp
Oxford Street, Royal Court Upstairs, London
A comedy that rummages to good effect, says Sarah Hemming
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