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    Angelina Jolie and German Philosophy: The Week in Pop-Culture Writing

    Highlights from seven days of reading about arts and entertainment
    by The Editors Jul 29, 2017 2 minutes
    Source: Heng Sinith / AP

    Evgenia Peretz | “As it happens, the personal trauma has coincided with her most personal film yet. Jolie has directed a moving, large-scale adaptation of , Loung Ung’s 2000 memoir of the Khmer Rouge genocide. … If Cambodians consider the film to be something of a gift, then it’s surely a thank-you gift. For Jolie, Cambodia is where she started her family, and it’s where she made a cathartic

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