'While festivals very rarely have a cohesive through line, war and displacement connect several highlights of the Sydney Film Festival. By Anthony Carew.'
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'“The thing is that many men are bad and even when they’re not bad they’re not that good either,” says the matriarch Queenie in Jenny Ackland’s new novel, Hurdy Gurdy. “They should be better but no one can force them so they do what they want.” Queenie believes that the time for women going “softly-softly” is over.' (Introduction)