Completing a trilogy begun with Love and continued in Faith, this is the gentlest and most amenable of Ulrich Seidl's dramas of female sexuality. Thirteen-year-old Melanie (Melanie Lenz) is spending the summer at an Austrian diet camp where "discipline" is the watchword for the tubby teen inmates.
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Friday 26 July 2013
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Thursday 25 July 2013
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Monday 22 July 2013
We're British, and so when we do see some of that yellow thing in the sky, we want to make the most of it. If you're offended by flesh - perhaps it's your problem
Children become more insecure, unhappy and isolated during recession, warns report
Monday 22 July 2013
One in 10 youngsters in Britain has a low sense of well-being, says Children’s Society
Know your own children? Not well enough
Sunday 21 July 2013
Parents are often wide of the mark when it comes to their youngsters’ fears
Elected police chiefs 'a law unto themselves'
Saturday 20 July 2013
Elected police leaders can easily sack chief constables and avoid scrutiny for their decisions because of the threat of an embarrassing public row, say MPs.
Paperback review: John Keats, By Nicholas Roe
Saturday 13 July 2013
Roe’s focus on Keats’s early life challenges many of the things we think we know about the poet, bringing to the fore instead the sudden death of his father when he was very young, his mother’s indecently hasty remarriage, and the family’s social and financial decline.
Leveson: Newspapers and magazines reveal 'Independent Press Standards Organisation'
Monday 08 July 2013
Claiming to deliver 'key recommendations', IPSO will not need the underpinning of a royal charter to impose £1m fines
Review: The Next Time You See Me, By Holly
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Sunday 07 July 2013
When murder brings out the best in us
Archbishop of Canterbury highlights revolution in sexuality
Friday 05 July 2013
The Archbishop of Canterbury has spoken of a “revolution in the area of sexuality” while announcing a campaign to stamp out homophobic bullying in Church of England schools.
DVD & Blu-ray review: The Village: Series 1, For retail and rental (Entertainment One)
Friday 05 July 2013
The first six hours of a planned 42 telling the story of a Derbyshire village over the 20th century, and, yes, this first series of Peter Moffat’s drama groaned under its ambition.
Why Lucy, Harry and Hannah are a lot less likely to trash the classroom
Thursday 04 July 2013
Review: Derren Brown's Infamous at the Palace Theatre leaves us dumbfounded by his trance trickery
Wednesday 03 July 2013
Infamous, Palace Theatre, London
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