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CLOSE — Lukas Dhont's Quietly Powerful Coming-of-Age Movie

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The Room of Remy

The first 15 minutes of this film are we two boys together clinging. The Walt Whitman poem which is also been made into David Hockney painting. And it's very much how I saw also our first 15 minutes. There are two scenes that are entirely physical that I'd really love for you to talk about filming. They're both totally different scenes and they kind of track to me the changes in the characters' relationships. You want to describe the first one in the bedroom to people who haven't seen the movie yet? So they have this cocoon which is the room of Remy. It's a red room and it's their safe space. Like they are intimate. But if it would

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