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Article: Titanic Kate hits the hippie trail; Mike Davies takes a look at this week's cinema releases.(News)
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- The Birmingham Post (England)
- Article date:
- February 5, 1999
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HIDEOUS KINKY
CERT 15. 98 MINS
For her follow up to Titanic, Kate Winslet swaps freezing sea for scorching sand in the trueish story of a single mother and her two daughters following the hippie trail to Marrakech in 1972.
Adapted from Esther Freud's autobiographical novel, the tale is very much reliant on suspending contemporary moral judgments on the responsibility of dragging two young children across Morocco, living in primitive conditions, frequently with very little to eat, and exposing them to all manner of health dangers while selfishly ...