For a long while this film seems so full of promise and so fresh with its charmingly serene pace, exquisite costume design and minimal dialogue. We, like the 14-year-old Marie Antoinette (Kirsten Dunst) become slowly enveloped in the royal French court at Versailles, with its whispering courtiers and highly mannered conventions. But once there, the […]
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The novels and short stories of Philip K. Dick have been fertile ground for filmmakers over the years (Blade Runner, Total Recall, Minority Report to name a few) and A Scanner Darkly shares Dick’s common themes of a future filled with dark surrealism and uncertainty. It differs however as a difficult and deeply personal story, […]
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