'Past Lives,' the Start of Oscar Season, and the Top Five Most Romantic Movies of All Time
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The History of Movies
Shelley Beale: I think all of our movies owe a debt to the Golden Age of Hollywood 30s and 40s. She says we've trained ourselves to accept this almost like Pentecostal idea of you can't quite have all of the lust and longing that you feel you deserve. We come from a pretty puritanical society that nags sex, she says. But in some cases, it's not some people are fully at peace with their own desires.
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