Thursday, July 26, 2018

The other side of sunshine

Began to read Friedrich Dürrenmatt's novel The Pledge: Requim for the Detective Novel and the next evening the movie adaptation courtesy of Sean Penn is on TV, so I felt obliged to see it. The film is probably better than I remembered, a stomach-turning murder investigation with a truly ominous atmosphere occupying at all times.

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In the harsh face of stardom

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