45 m. ago Last night’s lovely dinner is today’s leaky, smelly lunch – the Edith Pritchett cartoon

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3 d. ago The Most Precious of Cargoes review – postmodern Holocaust fairytale is dreamy curiosity

Michel Hazanavicius’s sentimental tale about a baby found in the woods features sweet little cartoon birds and rabbits as well as the real horror of Nazi death campsDirected by Michel Hazanavicius, this postmodern Holocaust fairytale premiered at Cannes last year, and turns out to be a dreamy animated curiosity which is certainly different to the icy realist rigour of other films which have appeared there on the same theme, such as Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest or László Nemes’s Son of Saul. It is adapted from a novella by author and screenwriter Jean-Claude Grumberg (who collaborated with Truffaut on The Last Metro), whose own father was murdered in the Nazi death camps.The late Jean-Louis Trintignant has his final credit as the narrator, introducing us to scenes that could, at first glance, be from the Brothers Grimm. We see a dense central European forest through which a second world war Nazi train is seen speeding through, carrying terrified Jews to Auschwitz. One man, ...

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6 d. ago 'It's 2025, not 1975': Drinkers are left frothing with rage at real ale festival's 'sexualised' stockings poster

For the real-ale lovers of St Albans, the cartoon sketch of a pretty girl revealing her stocking tops while clutching a foaming pint of beer was just the job to promote their annual festival.

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6 d. ago The beauty counter gets under my skin – the Edith Pritchett cartoon

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1 week ago From Trump’s return to a deadly virus: Edith Pritchett’s week in Venn diagrams – cartoon

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1 week ago ‘I didn’t know you wore a retainer!’: the Edith Pritchett cartoon on real relationship milestones

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2 w. ago Photo bombs: documenting my photographic failures – the Edith Pritchett cartoon

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3 w. ago From debating online to popping a spot: Edith Pritchett’s week in Venn diagrams – cartoon

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3 w. ago ‘Is dat weally necessawy?’: my painful visit to the dentist – the Edith Pritchett cartoon

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