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A Trailer for Jem Cohen’s Chuck-will’s-widow

A still from Chuck-will’s-widow.

Jem Cohen is a filmmaker’s filmmaker, in the way that, say, James Salter and Grace Paley are writers’ writers. He has made more than (1999), a film ten years in the making about the band Fugazi;  (2000), also a decade in filming, on the titular singer-songwriter; and (2012), a drama about a museum visitor and a security guard, set in the Vienna’s Kunsthistorisches Museum.

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