Director – David Bickerstaff – 2017 – UK – Cert. U – 91m ***** Sixteenth Century Renaissance sculptor Michelangelo remains one of the greatest artists of all time, yet his overreaching ambition frequently proved his undoing – back out in UK cinemas to tie in with the 550th anniversary of Michelangelo’s birth from Tuesday, May […]
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Love and Death
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- Post date May 20 2025
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