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Smoke and mirrors
9/10
Todd Haynes’ 2002 film ‘Far From Heaven‘ was a masterpiece of subtle subversion that paid homage to the richly coloured 1950s film style (and specifically the ‘women’s pictures’ of Douglas Sirk and his contemporaries). What could have been hollow pastiche is in fact a thoughtful and moving examination of US social [...]

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Like a rolling stone
6.5/10
‘I’m Not There‘ is a wildly impressionistic film packed with visual trickery and esoteric musical and cultural references. With six characters employed intermittantly to represent different facets of the Bob Dylan’s life and work - without mentioning him by name - this is sometimes too self-consciously arty, a willfully experimental mess. It [...]

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