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Coming of age

Just finished watching We Are the Best! with my 12-year-old.   Subtitled Swedish film about three 13-year-old misfits who form a punk band in the early 80s, and — even though on the surface it’s about punk, and rebellion and anarchy — probably one of the sweetest movies I’ve seen in years. Fun to watch with Emma, who was game despite the subtitles.  It helped that the...

Cartoonish

I watched Don Hertzfeldt’s “The World of Tomorrow” short film recently, and then almost immediately went and found his trilogy of shorts, “It’s Such a Beautiful Day,” from a couple years back.  Both films are heartbreaking — “Beautiful Day” a little more so, because it doesn’t have a character like the young Emily of “World of...

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