The Secret Agent to Mitski: this week’s best reviews

Highlights across TV, film, books and music include a Newsnight interview with Gisèle Pelicot, Wagner Moura in The Secret Agent, Michael Pollan’s exploration of consciousness and a new album from Mitski. If you only watch one, make it Gisèle Pelicot: The Newsnight Interview.

Summed up in a sentence: “A perfectly judged questioning of the feminist icon and source of hope to women around the world – in which her innate dignity shines through.” “Sitting, perfectly calm, effortlessly poised, even when occasionally moved to tears … Mme Pelicot cuts an extraordinary figure.

You can only gaze in admiration at her strength and grace.” Other TV picks include Girl Taken, a psychologically complex family thriller, and Dinosaur, a Glaswegian sitcom refreshed by Nina’s autistic perspective. If you only watch one film, make it The Secret Agent, in which Wagner Moura plays an academic on the run in Brazil’s murderous 1970s.

Brazil, Glasgow

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