Old Fashion Waltz(1999)
An old fashioned waltz. Flirting with horror cinema, here is the portrait of an aging New Brunswick population, unfolding like a found footage object equally elegiac as it is nightmarish.
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An old fashioned waltz. Flirting with horror cinema, here is the portrait of an aging New Brunswick population, unfolding like a found footage object equally elegiac as it is nightmarish.
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1999-01-01
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