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Sam Mendes, Empire of Light, Enys Men, Tár & M3gan

Kermode & Mayo’s Take

CHAPTER

I Feel Compelled to Write This Film

I felt like it was something that could be a crossroads between different people's lives. And I also wanted to write about two lonely people who found an ad hoc family, which is my experience of the theatre and cinema. The families that I found were not biological families. They were eccentric families put together by us, with a bunch of people who didn't quite fit in anywhere else. But it was instinctive. There are some movies you kind of decide to do in a strategic part of your brain. That would be Bond. This was one of those, where it just felt like something in me needed to express these things. It might be this case for every movie, but for this

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