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'The Plagiarists' Ponders Authenticity, Inauthentically

Shot on vintage, lo-fi video cameras, this talky, didactic film finds a bickering couple beginning to question themselves once they start to question a tale told by an older black man.
Not everything is what it seems in <em>The Plagiarists,</em> a lo-fi indie drama directed by Peter Parlow. <em></em>

When we first meet Anna (Lucy Kaminsky) and Tyler (Eamon Monaghan), their car has broken down on a wintry day in a rural area, and they're bickering about what to do. The thirty-something couple at the center of is always squabbling about something, which is part of the joke. This is a cool, ironic movie about people are perpetually uptight and

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