• Gone too Tsar: the erotic period drama that has enraged Russia

    A state-funded film about tsar Nicholas II’s affair with a ballerina, Matilda was expected to be a celebration of Russian culture – but it has outraged the Orthodox church •Sign up for Film Today and get our film team’s highlights of the day
    In the midst of the frostiest relations between Russia and the UK since the cold war, this weekend Russia is sending over a cultural present: the controversial historical drama Matilda opens in British cinemas. It features beautiful co
  • Steps Back in Time review – the magic of young Kenneth MacMillan

    Barbican Pit, London
    A programme of MacMillan’s early works by his former ballerina Viviana Durante is brimming with tricksIn the early 1950s, Kenneth MacMillan saw little in the world of ballet that was a true reflection of himself. Scottish and working-class, he struggled to find his place within the opera house establishment; part of a generation of angry young men, he struggled to find value in a repertory that seemed to be little more than “window dressing”. Once he turned

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