Movie: The General Returns from One Place to Another

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    Shaping a concurrently indulgent and skeptical experience of the beautiful, the film draws an uneasy balance between the romantic and the horrid. A Frank O'Hara monologue (from a play of the same title) attempts to undercut the sincerity of the landscape, but there are stronger forces surfacing.

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    2006-11-03

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    7

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    3.5 starts
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    English
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