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Pick of the indies
A Boy Called Twist
IT’S been given the treatment by Lionel Bart with Ron Moody as a marvellous Fagin. A young Alec Guinness has starred in it, and more recently Roman Polanski turned his attention to the tale: over 17 years since Dickens wrote the story Oliver Twist continues to enthral and inspire.
And now the story has been scooped up out of London’s squalid back streets and taken to Cape Town, South Africa. Instead of Twist being a Victorian runaway, he is a shanty town street kid.
A Boy called Twist, directed by Tim Greene, is being shown on Sunday in aid of South African charity My Life which works with children, offering education and training courses.
The film, which has won plaudits at the Cannes Festival and was paid for by touting for donations from people who wanted to flag up the plight of the poor in South Africa , has not yet been released in Britain.
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