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The Breathers-Inmedia

Drama Ben Russell's early short pushes silent film narration into uncharted territory. Two women in Victorian dress land in a new country by sea and wander its emptied industrial landscape. They call each other sister and learn to make money. One is diagnosed with scurvy by a monomaniacal butcher. Her hermetic tragedy is further subsumed by portraits of men dressed as animals and asynchronous scenes of violence. The result is a historical ... [+]
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