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It’s all It’s not
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Shock Of The Nude With Mary Beard PlasticSurgeryUndressed
BBC2, Monday 3 February, 9pm BBC1, Tuesday 4 February,10.35pm
Becoming a dame hasn’t dimmed Mary Beard’s passion for Thisshowtakesalookattherealityofplasticsurgery,showing
provocative topics. So, across two episodes, she will express her whathappensinbetweenthebeforeandafterpics.Inthisopening
views on nudes in Western art. Tonight, she starts by exploring episodeoffour,abunchofsurgery-seekerswhoareconsidering
a couple of famous nude sculptures and takes a look at the 17th- liposculpturewatchsurgeonAmirNakhdjevaniresurrectpre-
century painter Artemisia Gentileschi. Just when it’s all getting existingpatientDave’ssix-packafterasportsinjury.Eachofthem
a bit too academic, she joins a hen party as they attempt to isaccompaniedbyafriendorfamilymember,whointurnoffer
draw a naked man. HHH Jason Arnopp theirownviewsonthesurgery.HHHHJasonArnopp
RichardJewell
Cert15,131minutes, #95
incinemas31January
Starring:PaulWalterHauser,
KathyBates,SamRockwell
Director: Clint Eastwood
THEPLOTSecurityguardRichard
(Hauser)ishailedaherowhenhespots
abackpackwithabombatthe1996
AtlantaOlympics–savingmanylives.
ButwhentheFBIprobeshimasa
suspect,pressvilificationensues.
WHAT’SRIGHTWITHIT?Respect
todirectorClintEastwoodforpicking
astorywithanunconventional and
sociallyawkwardprotagonist,andfor
castingarelativeunknownintherole.
WHAT’SWRONGWITHIT?Thisvery
Americantalemaystruggletoengage
broadaudiencesoutsidetheUS.
VERDICTShamethatthecontroversy
ofacontestedplotpointinvolving
alocalprintjournalist(OliviaWilde)
andanFBIagent(JonHamm)has
ratherovershadowedthis
amplycompellingfilm.
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