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Title: About Pain, and Risk, and Friendship
Review: I watched this movie four times in two days. It's a small, cinematic miracle. The writing is perfect, the performances of the three leads both heartbreaking and fall-down funny. It haunts you. I know these people. I am these people.Writer/director Tom McCarthy does a rare thing in modern film-making. He respects both his audience and his characters enough not to tell the whole story. When Olivia asks Fin not to stare, when Joe says grace in the most reverently irreverant way, when Fin demands that the crowd "take a look!"; there are rivers of backstory to all these characters. And we know what they are without being told. This film has the sometimes awkward intimacy of a play. I've never seen anything remotely like it.I hear Dinklage is playing the lead in Richard III. Wish I could see it. When he's in anything else I'll be first in line for a ticket.
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