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Robinson in Ruins
7.5
/10
278 Ratings

Synopsis

Newly released from prison, the mysterious Robinson has been haunting the Oxfordshire countryside with a ciné camera. A few months later, film cans and a notebook are discovered in a derelict caravan: the results of his search for the origins of capitalist catastrophe in the English landscape.

Our take

Voiced by Vanessa Redgrave in place of the late Paul Scofield, the concluding chapter of Patrick Keiller’s psychogeographic trilogy culminates in a scathing critique of the failures of capitalism. This enthralling blend of fiction and film essay takes Robinson firmly into the new millennium.