Future days: two of the most anticipated films from this year's edition, Bertrand Bonello’s The Beast and Harmony Korine’s AGGRO DR1FT, share a desire to provoke
Out of the fog: the NYFF61 Revivals section features a thematic thread of films about immigration and displacement: Bahram Beyzaie’s The Stranger and the Fog, Tewfik Saleh’s The Dupes, Horace Ové’s Pressure, and more
More please: Arnow’s comedic auto-portrait of a woman adrift in New York City is a moving exploration of romantic and existential indecision, sexual self-expression, humiliation, and the uses of first-person experience in storytelling
Imitation of life: Todd Haynes’s latest, which opens this year's NYFF, rips a tale from the tabloid headlines and turns it into a modern melodrama of desire, deception, and delusion
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