Review of Timbuktu (2014) by David Edelstein for New York Magazine/Vulture — 30 Dec 2015
If Timbuktu has a “takeaway,” it’s a deeply humanist one and so, in this context, political: that there’s no such thing as a monolithic Muslim culture; that the threat is nowhere near as great to Westerners as to the people of Mali, Syria, Iraq, Yemen, etc.
; that ideology is deaf and blind and anti-life; and that cinema (and all art) can blow it to what I’d once have called Timbuktu.
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This review of Timbuktu (2014) was written by David Edelstein and published by New York Magazine/Vulture on 30 Dec 2015.
Timbuktu has generally received very positive reviews.
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