David Roberts

My novella YOUNG LOVE is out now! Buy @Dymocks_Sydney, @abbeysbookshop, @Gleebooks, @booktopia, @Berkelouw, @BRTDbookshop, @QBDTheBookshop and @amazonbooks.

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Part excoriation, part lamentation, my #novella YOUNG LOVE unspools the psyche of a man ill at ease with modernity, “that festering malignancy.” Satirical, compulsive, deeply provocative and available now as an ebook:

https://t.co/BnK26JpODQ…

https://t.co/kK7suWBxcK…

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In Issue 8 of @KalliopeX1, my review of Ouyang Yu’s excellent novel The Sun at Eight or Nine (2025, @PuncherWattmann): https://t.co/9hr1HJ2dr2

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2. KYUKA: BEFORE SUMMER’S END. Farce shades imperceptibly into tragedy in this spiritual successor to the also magnificent MAGNETIC FIELDS (2021). A fractured family on holiday are shown through sudden poetry and camerawork that catches the characters off guard.

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HERE THEY ARE, MY FAVOURITE FILMS OF 2025:

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3. THE STORY OF SOULEYMANE. Gallic social realism exquisitely realised, pic dodges clichés with the adroitness of its titular food delivery cyclist, a Guinean immigrant in Paris who strives for residency while battling the injustices of the gig economy. Abou Sangaré soars.

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@Eeeeeee93200839 @Womnrespecter88 The Apes of God, Tarr and Self Condemned by Wyndham Lewis; Take Five by D. Keith Mano; The Old Devils by Kingsley Amis…

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@tnyfrontrow My man GOTTA have Caught by the Tides, They Will Be Dust and Julie Keeps Quiet on it.

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1. HARD TRUTHS is such exquisite humanist filmmaking. I loved its poise and pugnacity, its comedy and empathy, its incomprehensible pain. The cast is extraordinary and Mike Leigh’s vision as vital and incisive as ever.

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Okay, okay - I’m posting it! My FAVOURITE FILMS OF 2024 list:

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2. BRANDO WITH A GLASS EYE is not only hilarious and totally original, it’s also a deep philosophical inquiry into truth and deception, being and performance. Writer-director Antonis Tsonis is one to keep an eye (glass or otherwise) on. Seek out and savour this film.