Director – Oliver Hermanus – 2025 – UK, US – Cert. 15 – 128m **** A Kentucky man falls for a music professor in Boston and accompanies him on a field trip recording folk songs – out in UK cinemas on Friday, January 23rd In 1917, having grown up on a farmstead in rural Kentucky and […]
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- Post author By Jeremy Clarke
- Post date January 23 2026
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