Tetro
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Francis Ford Coppola’s most recent film had “an anachronistic feel,” but in a good way, said The Boston Globe. Filmed in “artful black and white,” this modest tale of an Argentine conductor and his eccentric family manages a precarious “balance between engrossing melodrama and operatic fantasia.”
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