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Acclaimed actor will take on guest lead role as a specialist firearms officer in hit BBC crime drama Robert Carlyle will join the cast of Line of Duty to play a guest lead role in the new series, it has been announced. The actor follows his Trainspotting co-star Kelly Macdonald, as well as Stephen Graham – the creator and star of Adolescence – and the Westworld actor Thandiwe Newton , in taking on such a role. Continue reading... from Film | The Guardian https://ift.tt/4ZNvU2i via IFTTT

Saint Omer director Alice Diop: ‘I make films from the margins because that’s my territory, my history’

Raised in a Paris banlieue, the documentary-maker is now in the spotlight thanks to her Venice prize-winning first feature, based on the true story of a woman accused of killing her baby

“I have a voice that doesn’t carry very well,” says French film-maker Alice Diop, when I tell her I can’t quite hear what she’s saying. We meet in a cafe near her home in the working-class district of Montreuil, on the eastern edge of Paris. It is busy with lunch parties, and the combination of Diop’s French – she speaks fast and quietly – with the occasional crashes of crockery isn’t ideal for discussing the complex, challenging new film she has made.

Still, if Diop’s speech doesn’t carry acoustically, it’s a different matter with her artistic voice. After a significant career as a documentary-maker, Diop’s feature film debut, Saint Omer, is resonating worldwide. It won two awards at the Venice film festival last year and was France’s entry for the best international feature at the Academy Awards, making Diop the first black woman ever to represent France in the Oscar race. Diop is suddenly in the spotlight in a way she never imagined.

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