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MSPIFF 2025 Documentary Review: Ai Weiwei’s Turandot – brilliantly captures Wei’s creative genius in a riveting and deeply moving way

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Ai Weiwei is a well-known Chinese contemporary artist and activist who has gained international fame for his thought-provoking art installations, architecture, photography, and active presence on social media. The film begins with the text ‘Everything is Art, Everything is Politics’ that’s attributed to Wei. If you haven't heard of Giacomo Puccini's Turandot, it's a story …

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FlixChatter Review: Florence Foster Jenkins (2016)

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I have to admit that I didn't know this film was in the works until I saw it on the press screening list. I had listened to Kenneth Turan's review of the French film Marguerite on NPR, which is also a biopic of a wealthy woman who loves music and the opera but is delusional about …

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