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Christine Vachon on SAFE

Safe • 15m

Christine Vachon started producing features in order to Make Todd Haynes’s POISON (1991), which would be his first commercially released film. In this interview, conducted in 2014, Vachon reflects on the beginnings of the collaboration and discusses the historical context of SAFE.

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