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'Prime Crime: a True Story': Gus Van Sant Returns to the Front Page of Dissent with a Media Kidnapping

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The director turns a struggle between a proletarian David and a capitalist Goliath into a dazzling and nostalgic audiovisual feast. More information: Good night, have a good time, don't die': Gore Verbinski leaves the prison of directors to face the AI

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Among the filmmakers with their own style, recognizable and singular, and the filmmakers without style, or with invisible style, able to focus solely on history, refusing any formal detail that is lost from the background, is a fascinating figure: the director capable of having all styles; his, none, and that of all others, as appropriate.The American Gus Van Sant is one of them.Read morePrime Crime: A True StoryAddress: Gus Van Sant.Interpreter…

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After seven years of absence, filmmaker Gus Van Sant returns to the big screen, with a captivating societal thriller. Despite the excellence of his casting, our critic regrets that the film does not benefit from more copies in France. Surprisingly, the last Gus Van Sant spends in so few theaters in Paris, the first week of his exploitation. Suffice to say that in the province, La Corde au cou – c ́est le titre – probably did not have a very long…

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The director turns a struggle between a proletarian David and a capitalist Goliath into a dazzling and nostalgic audiovisual feast. More information: Good night, have a good time, don't die': Gore Verbinski leaves the prison of directors to face the AI

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“In the United States you’re no one unless you’re on TV... what’s the use of doing something worthwhile if no one sees it?” asked Nicole Kidman’s killer in the irreverent satire ‘All for a Dream’ (1995), through which Gus Van Sant not only remembered the 15 minutes of fame that Andy Warhol had spoken about, but also anticipated both the rise of tele-reality and the exhibitionism viralized by social networks, and that she composes something like …

The director of ‘Indomitable Will Hunting’, ‘My name is Harvey Milk’ or ‘Elephant’, Gus Van Sant, returns to the big screen with a criminal story...

The American director returns after seven years with a feature film with Al Pacino and Bill Skarsgård in a state of grace to narrate this event that shocked American society in 1977

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El Confidencial broke the news in Spain on Thursday, April 16, 2026.
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