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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Laura Cumming

Edinburgh art festival 2023 review – from a riveting meditation on borders to magnificent monochromes

Lawrence Abu Hamdan’s film 45th Parallel, ‘his best film yet’.
Lawrence Abu Hamdan’s film 45th Parallel screening at Talbot Rice Gallery, ‘his best film yet’. Photograph: Sally Jubb Photography

Film scene: a wood-panelled library of some elegance on the Canadian-American border. So precisely on the border, in fact, that a line of black duct tape running across the polished marble floor divides the building between Quebec and Vermont.

It was here, explains our soft-spoken narrator, that three men brought a backpack through the US entrance in 2011, depositing it in a lavatory to be collected by a criminal who then left through the Canadian exit. The bag was full of smuggled guns.

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