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[TRAILER] Following the life of a cursed dress as it passes from person to person, with devastating consequences, this Peter Strickland film is, at turns, chilling, surreal, hilarious, and inscrutable. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Sep 16, 2024 - 9 comments

In Mike Leigh's 1996 Palme d'Or winning drama, Marianne Jean-Baptiste stars as Hortense, a well-educated black middle-class London optometrist, who was adopted as a baby and has chosen to trace her family history – and discovers that her birth mother, Cynthia, played by Brenda Blethyn, is a working-class white woman with a dysfunctional family. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Jun 2, 2022 - 8 comments