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LYDIA and the Power of Flashbacks

LYDIA and the Power of Flashbacks

14m

Professor David Bordwell illuminates how Julien Duvivier’s haunting, exquisitely bittersweet romantic drama deploys intricate, subjective flashback sequences to enhance its sublime emotional impact.

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    Directed by Julien Duvivier • 1941 • United Kingdom

    A woman spends her whole life holding out against the advances of three men in the hopes that her first love will return to her.

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