Even When Life is Sad, People Still Have a Good Time(2005)
A partially destroyed fragment of Powell and Pressburger's 1951 Technicolor dream film "Tales of Hoffman", becomes a site of a ruptured fantasy.
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Even When Life is Sad, People Still Have a Good Time
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A partially destroyed fragment of Powell and Pressburger's 1951 Technicolor dream film "Tales of Hoffman", becomes a site of a ruptured fantasy.
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2005-01-01
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