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No./ 9 Inside cinema’s most intense birth scene ever

THE CONCEPTION

, a story of a home birth that undergoes complications, originated as a play in Poland. On stage, the birth sequence was “45 minutes long,” says Hungarian director Kornél Mundruczó. “It was kind of like when you have a beautiful painting, but before that you do a lot of studies. The play was a little bit

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