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This review was originally published on October 9, 2024 out of the New York Film Festival.
We are recirculating it now timed toThe Friends theatrical release.
We dont ever really know whats going through his head, and thats sort of the point.
The human at the center of this movie is pretty solid too.
(Limpidis one of your words, she says, laughing.)
They argue over the meaning of words and stories because thats what writers do.
That sounds like a knock, but its not.
Yet it clearly wasnt enough.
(Beware the inevitable detail, he was apparently fond of saying.)
But McGehee and Siegel represent a curious breed of filmmaker; I would call them elevated sentimentalists.
