3 d. ago Cal review – grieving Helen Mirren superb in compassionate Troubles romance

Mirren won best actress at Cannes in 1984 for her role as Marcella, who forms a relationship with John Lynch’s Cal – a man complicit in her husband’s murderPat O’Connor’s Northern Irish movie from 1984, adapted by author Bernard MacLaverty from his own novel, holds up very well for its rerelease; better in fact than most of the movies and TV drama made about and during the Troubles. It has an unhurried, thoughtful and very human quality; Helen Mirren won the best actress award at Cannes for her performance here and in fact it is very well acted across the board by a blue-chip cast.Mirren plays Marcella, a woman from a Catholic background, married across the sectarian divide to a reserve police officer murdered at his parents’ farmhouse by an IRA man who had bullied a bewildered local guy into being his getaway driver; this is Cal, played by the gauntly intense John Lynch. Cal lives with his widowed father; a gentle performance by Donal McCann, who was Gabriel Conroy in John Huston’s...

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6 d. ago Woman, 68, who married toyboy, 25, admits 'everyone always says same thing'

Kay and her husband Ablack, who is 43 years her junior, have shared the story of their whirlwind romance after they got engaged just 72 hours after meeting in person

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7 d. ago I'd never paid a bill until my divorce at 57! Here's the vital advice I'd give every married woman...

A few months after my divorce, my mother asked me who my car insurer was. I just looked at her blankly. None of it had crossed my mind. I was extraordinarily lucky nothing went wrong.

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9 d. ago Married Irish woman 'sexually assaults man at Magaluf spa hotel' where she was staying with her husband

The 37-year-old was hauled to court after being accused of touching her alleged victim's genitals without his consent.

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1 week ago Christine McGuinness recalls 'heartbreak' with woman before Paddy marriage and says it 'shouldn't matter'

The Blackpool-born star has been speaking about her sexuality after a 'fuss' was made about who she was dating after her split

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1 week ago Two Brit gangsters killed in Costa del Sol shooting died next to terrified 'wife'

Scottish gangsters Ross Monaghan and Eddie Lyons Jr were brutally killed in a Costa del Sol resort town this weekend - and a woman said to have been married to one of them reportedly witnessed the attack

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1 week ago Woman stalks undertaker at funerals – then marries him in wild hearse ceremony

One couple took the phrase 'till death do us part' a bit too literally as she decided to ditch a traditional car for her wedding entrance, and instead rocked up to the venue in a hearse

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2 w. ago Woman 'married' to rag doll reveals reason her relationship is now falling apart

Meirivone Rocha Moraes, 39, says her 'hubby', a life-sized doll, has been cheating on her and now their marriage is falling apart after announcing she is 'pregnant' with his fourth child

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2 w. ago Woman's marriage lasts just one hour after husband's unthinkable first act

A bride has shared the reason her marriage didn't even last until the wedding reception as her new groom vanished after the vows in a shocking twist

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2 w. ago Melbourne woman's marriage lasts just ONE hour after new husband's cruel first act

An Australian woman has shocked after her wedding ended in heartbreak before the reception was even over.

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3 w. ago Woman and Child review – drama of rage and pain in the Iranian marriage market

Cannes film festivalSaeed Roustaee’s new film takes aim at a slippery, entitled male who thinks he can lord it over a widow he plans to marryA strange, sad, sombre movie from Iranian director Saeed Roustaee whose last entry at Cannes was the family drama Leila’s Brothers in 2022. This is a story about the randomness of life in the big city, a melodramatic convulsion of grief, rage and pain which has a TV soap feel to its succession of escalating crises. Like Leila’s Brothers, it is about the entitlement of Iran’s menfolk, and how a man – however shiftless, casual and low-status – can somehow pull rank on a woman in the marriage market.Payman Maadi (from Asghar Farhadi’s A Separation) plays Hamid, an ambulance driver in his late 40s with a certain roguish ladies-man charm whose unmarried status raises eyebrows among some of his acquaintances, but who is now engaged to Mahnaz (Parinaz Izadyar). She is a smart, hardworking hospital nurse who is widowed and lives with her sister Mehri (...

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3 w. ago Asylum seeker who tried to win the right to stay in Britain because he was gay has his case thrown out

Esmir Demaj petitioned for the right to stay in Britain because he was a 'gay' man but was later found to have deliberately 'misled' the Home Office.

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