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ARIES: As you put the inspirations of recent weeks into production, Venus and Mercury in Aries are broadcasting loud and clear that doing what you love is what attracts cash and happiness. Though you’ll need to handle authority clashes with charm rather than confrontation: more as a dance than a declaration of war. TAURUS: Happy birthday, beautiful Venusians. A trio of backtracking planets – Jupiter, Saturn, and Pluto – are currently offering reality checks to ensure you don’t expend energy unnecessarily. Slow and steady sets the pace and wins this week’s race, and since tortoise is more your spirit animal than hare, this suits you just fine. GEMINI: Geminis like to gogo, while the present triple planetary retrograde sets the pace to slow-mo – a rich, nourishing time that allows you to sink into recognition of past habits that are stopping your forward motion. And yes, it’s a blessing: unless you want to be dragging old baggage into next month’s bright new birthday future. CANCER: With Pluto and Saturn retro in your relationship house it’s time for the Viagra eyedrops, as in a long hard look at relationships. How you do them. Your contribution to any current dissatisfaction or resentment you may be feeling about them. The next four months reward reflection and repair work, starting with yourself. LEO: How do retrograde outer planets affect your world? They slow life down so you have time to look at your life from a deeper perspective, perhaps see some confronting or inconvenient truths you might not have otherwise. The mirror they hold up this week reflects that self-care and nourishment are a must.. VIRGO: As Saturn and Pluto set out this week to backtrack through your love zone – which includes the self kind – this week could bring up doubts about well, everything. And that’s ultimately a good thing, because you get the next four months to recognise and revel in your own essential okayness and core adorability.
WITH PLUTO AND SATURN HIBERNATING IN THE SIGN OF LEADERSHIP, BUSINESS, AND FINANCE FOR THE NEXT FEW MONTHS, WHAT TO SAY BUT YEA FOR THIS EARTHY, PLEASURE-LOVING TAURAN WEEK…
BY JOHN CAMPBELL
CINEMA REVIEWS
LIBRA: This week’s antidote to edgy retro energy is suitably Venusian: keep things as beautiful as possible. According to Libran Marie Kondo, the reason we can’t let something go is either attachment to the past or fear of the future, so clean, clear, smudge, do whatever’s necessary to feng shui your home space to zen clarity. SCORPIO: Present planetary retrogrades are plugging speaking with integrity. Sarcasm and sharp remarks only get others offside, so consider the three classic filters before you speak: Is it true? Is it kind? Is it necessary? And edit social-media posts carefully: this is a period when even the most well-meant comments can be misconstrued. SAGITTARIUS: Retro Pluto in your financial sector gives you till October to dive into scarcity fears and resentment issues around money – with a professional if necessary. With time lord Saturn also in your cash zone, if you can learn from past mistakes, someone from the past could reappear with a timely offer or lucrative opportunity. CAPRICORN: Pluto retro in Capricorn for the next five months and Saturn for the next four offer the deep self-reflection and examination you need before proceeding on La Vie de Capri. If this evokes a mini identity crisis, that’s a good thing. Something that isn’t yet ready for takeoff needs to go on hold for now. AQUARIUS Saturn doing its annual backflip can be a bit of a gloom-bag: ditto retro Pluto excavating your shadow side and digging into emotional blind spots. Fun? Not so much, but deeply healing if you’re prepared to go there and delete some unhealthy patterns. Take your time, and as Shambhala teachings advise: cradle yourself in loving kindness. PISCES: Drama alert! This week’s triple planetary backflip could bring group tensions to boiling point, accompanied by cathartic outbursts. Be very wary about wading in to save the day, because not having all the facts will make the situation worse for everyone – most of all your well-intentioned, under-informed self.
DESTROYER Is this really how the LAPD go about their business? A bank robbery is in progress. Six masked gunmen are holding the staff and customers in terror. Three coppers turn up, a couple with automatic rifles, and they storm into the bank firing blindly at anything that moves. It beggars belief that in the US this might be seen as standard operational procedure, but it is sold to us in the movies ad nauseam. This is one of those dark and gritty flicks in which you begin to wonder at the half-way point just how much longer you might be prepared to spend with a collection of so many unpleasant characters – which is to say, everybody is tough and they all swear a lot (but don’t smoke ciggies). Nicole Kidman is Erin Bell, a detective who has ‘lost it’ after a botched undercover job in which she was involved resulted in the death of Chris (Sebastian Stan), a fellow police officer and the father of her child. The hair and makeup people have made her look like the living dead and she carries herself accordingly. Erin has a constantly downcast expression that is accompanied by a low, almost whispering vocal delivery that renders much of her dialogue almost incomprehensible. She has become active again after discovering that Silas (Toby Kebbell), the murderous villain responsible for her fall from grace, is back in town. The story is told with constant flashbacks to when Erin and Chris were infiltrating Silas’s gang, interspersed with her tracking down her nemesis. The sidelight is how, as a mother, she is determined to keep her impressionable sixteen-year-old daughter, Shelby (Jade Pettyjohn), out of Los Angeles’s gangsta underworld. The circular plot – ending with a surprise reveal that had been cleverly concealed throughout – is tight and not too complicated, the score heavy-handed, and the violence customary. It’s absorbing, but not an easy film to like, and I didn’t care in the least what happened to Erin, despite director Karyn Kusama’ mawkish last shots.
EVERYBODY KNOWS Iranian Asghar Farhadi is one of the most original and compelling writer/directors working today. A Separation (2011) and The Salesman (2016) – both Oscar winners – were so far above much of the dross that is churned out by mainstream cinema that the arrival of his latest was more than keenly anticipated. And it didn’t disappoint. Farhadi does not adhere to the idea that there is a clear distinction between who is right and who is wrong. Nor does he opt for the simplicity of having a protagonist and antagonist in the traditional sense – his people are just like you and me, caught up in life’s maelstrom of uncertainties. This time his story is set in Spain. Laura (Penélope Cruz) has returned BF Baby Friendly from Argentina to attend SP Kh][aYd Hj]k]flYlagf PS Private Screening
her sister’s wedding and re-connect with friends and family. During the celebrations, her teenage daughter Bea is abducted. A ransom is demanded and Paco (Javier Bardem), a winegrower and former flame of Laura, emerges as the only person in a position to raise the money – if he sells his estate. Old resentments and secrets that are not really secrets (because ‘everybody knows’) bubble to the surface while the problem of what to do about Bea is argued over. This is a ‘slow burn’ of the highest, most absorbing quality, as all characters begin to fray at the edges. The rich, almost tactile cinematography of the first half eventually gives over to a mood that is quieter, but with passions on the verge of erupting at any moment. Bardem and Cruz, probably because they are performing in their native tongue, have never been better and the fabulous Ricardo Darin, as Bea’s father, arrives on the scene when the mystery of the girl’s whereabouts intensifies. Underpinning it all is the ancient theme of land and long held grudges over its ownership. And how easy it is to forget what a treat it can be to listen to the ebb and flow and cadences of another language – the Spanish is simply beautiful in its own right.
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