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SATURDAY MARCH 21

The Godfather Part III (Māori TV, 8.30pm). Francis Ford Coppola’s tangled world of dons, mafioso and murder comes to its sublime end. (1990)

. Bryon Widner was destined for the movies. He was a violent white supremacist who eventually turned his back on racism. The redemptive narrative alone is catnip for cinema, but what really got the critics going is the metaphor of a man trapped in a pictorial prison by the racist tattoos that cover his face and body. The process to remove the ink is incredibly painful –

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