As an allegory for displacement, for the lost sense of self that exile brings, as well as its eventual rediscovery, Yunan creeps up on you.
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David Rooney,
The Hollywood Reporter,
25 Feb. 2025
Claudel created several versions of the scene, which has been interpreted as an allegory for life’s inevitable losses, as well as a personal tragedy that, at the time of its conception, was a fresh wound: the dissolution of Claudel’s relationship with her teacher and lover, Auguste Rodin.
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Tessa Solomon for ARTnews,
Robb Report,
19 Feb. 2025
Jameson seeks accounts of its daily life instead of parables of repression, and finds them in long novels by Günter Grass and Uwe Tellkamp.
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Mark Greif,
Harper's Magazine,
26 July 2024
Bathed in a pink-pop glow, its pastiche of romance and horror collide in a viciously mischievous parable of technology and control that speaks to these most anxious times.
In Elia Kazan's still-explosive working-class morality play about a palooka-turned-longshoreman who stands up to union-boss corruption on the docks, Brando is both hypnotic and heartbreakingly human.
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EW.com,
EW.com,
2 Mar. 2025
In recent years, several of the slender towers on Billionaires’ Row have been afflicted with excessive swaying and creaking, problems that are gleefully treated in the press as morality plays about rising inequality.
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