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Dec 13, 2020 · By basing the final film in his Small Axe series, “Education”, on his own experiences, Steve McQueen reveals how black children have the odds stacked against them from day one.
Dec 11, 2020 · Last week’s edition, Alex Wheatle, was a big story that felt too small, but this is exactly the opposite – a uniquely intimate drama that eclipses its short running time and feels complete.
Dec 6, 2020 · Education, the final film in Steve McQueen’s Small Axe anthology, explores systemic racism in the British schooling system and the West Indian women who organised to combat it. Read the rest of our coverage of Small Axe here.
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Dec 13, 2020 · Small Axe: Education, BBC1, review: A deeply affecting Steve McQueen film about children pushed to the margins. The film was quietly devastating in its depiction of the shame and helplessness...
Dec 18, 2020 · Like the rest of the “Small Axe” films, “Education” takes place in the past but feels exceptionally timely today. It describes a school-to-prison pipeline using schools like Durrants, but also indicts the schools that send children there, often just to get rid of them.
Dec 9, 2020 · The final film in Steve McQueen’s exemplary Small Axe series is perhaps the most personal. Education explores a school system in 1970s and ’80s Britain which was rigged against black...
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Dec 14, 2020 · The fifth and final film in the Small Axe series is titled Education. At first, it appears this refers to the education of the central character, 12-year-old London boy Kingsley Smith, impressively played by Kenyah Sandy, who’s transferred to a disgraceful “School for the Educationally Subnormal” after being disruptive.
