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‘They say these genres are dead but [the reaction is] wonderful’ RICHARD LINKLATER

hen it premiered at the Venice Film Festival last September, critics anointed Richard Linklater’s latest film - a screwball sex-com with murder - as contract-killer flick in a line-up that included David Fincher’s , Woody Allen’s and Harmony Korine’s .

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