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Bruegel, Ang Lee, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Beware of Pity

Bruegel's Defining A Dynasty at The Holburne Museum in Bath, Ang Lee's Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, Viet Thanh Nguyen's The Refugees, and The Kettering Incident.

Ang Lee's Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk is the first film to utilise a shooting and projection frame rate of 120 frames per second in 3D at 4K HD resolution. In a drama which tells the story of American war heroes on leave from Iraq, will audiences be won over by what Ang Lee calls a " new immersive cinema?"

Vietnamese American writer Viet Thanh Nguyen won the Pullitzer Prize for his debut novel The Sympathizer about the Vietnam war. His new book of short stories, The Refugees, draws heavily on his own experience of arriving in America having fled Vietnam after the fall of Saigon in 1975.

Bruegel's Defining A Dynasty at The Holburne Museum in Bath is the UK's first exhibition devoted to the Bruegel dynasty and brings together 35 works produced by four different generations of the family. A key work in the exhibition is the Wedding Dance in the Open Air, an oil painting from the Holburne's own collection which, following conservation work and technical examination, can be attributed firmly to the hand of Pieter Bruegel the Younger.

The Kettering Incident is a new 8 part series on Sky Atlantic starring Elizabeth Debicki who played opposite Tom Hiddleston in 大象传媒's hit drama The Night Manager. Shot entirely on location in Tasmania, The Kettering Incident follows a doctor (Debicki) who returns to her home town after several years overseas, only to find herself at the centre of a mystery surrounding the disappearance of a young girl.

Stefan Zweig's 1938 novel Ungueld des Herzens (Beware of Pity) brings together two of Europe's most boundary-pushing, imaginative theatre companies at the Barbican for the first time. Theatre de Complicite's Simon McBurney directs the outstanding Berlin theatre company Schaub眉hne in a story of a doomed romance set in the Austro-Hungarian empire just before the first world war.

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Beware of Pity

Beware of Pity

(Ungeduld des Herzens) is on at the Barbican Theatre in London until 12 February, with a livestream of the performance on the Barbican website on 12 February.

Billy Lynn鈥檚 Long Halftime Walk

Billy Lynn鈥檚 Long Halftime Walk

Billy Lynn鈥檚 Long Halftime Walk is in cinemas now, certificate 15.

The Refugees

The Refugees

Viet Thanh Nguyen鈥檚 collection of short stories is out in hardcover and ebook now.聽聽

Image: BeBe Jacobs

Bruegel: Defining a Dynasty

Bruegel: Defining a Dynasty

The exhibition is at the in Bath until 4 June.

Image: Adam Naming the Animals: Circle of Roelandt Savery, Oil on copper 漏 Holburne Museum

The Kettering Incident

The Kettering Incident

The Kettering Incident begins on Sky Atlantic on 15 February at 10pm.


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