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November 15, 2024
The Film Comment Letter: Time Traveling 🕰️
View in browser | filmcomment.com November 15, 2024 WEBSITE | PODCAST | LATEST Dear Readers, As we get ready for our "Best of 2024" critics' lists—part of our annual, end-of-year extravaganza—we're anticipating the pollster's biggest nightmare: two movies, same title, totally different vibes. Bas Devos's Here premiered first, offering a quietly profound tale of a Romanian construction worker and a Chinese botany student who cross paths serendipitously in Brussels. Now Robert Zemeckis's Here is in theaters, with a much more grandiose drama of unexpected connections: Forrest Gump leads Tom Hanks and Robin Wright play a digitally de-aged (and re-aged) boomer couple, living out the postwar years from the vantage point of one room in their Pennsylvania abode, where portals open up, taking us into the lives of the house's other inhabitants across time. Who wil read
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The Film Comment Letter: Time Traveling 🕰️