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The all-too-real heartbreak of forgetting is explored metaphorically in this Michel Gondry–directed, Charlie Kaufman–penned movie about an estranged couple who opt to erase one another from their memories (but at what cost?).
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Emma Specter, Vogue, 9 Mar. 2025
But don’t mistake these decisions for ambivalence — the group is wary of staying in the same place, metaphorically speaking.
—Paula Mejía, Billboard, 5 Mar. 2025
To them, the fate of the ranch and the fate of the world are the same thing, not metaphorically speaking but morally.
—Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 2 Mar. 2025
The biographical circumstances and the reddish tinge of the foremost prisoner’s hair have led commentators to interpret the image metaphorically, even solipsistically––the prisoner becomes a cipher for van Gogh, physically and psychologically incarcerated.
—Sarah C. Schaefer, Artforum, 1 Mar. 2025
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Emma Specter, Vogue, 9 Mar. 2025
But don’t mistake these decisions for ambivalence — the group is wary of staying in the same place, metaphorically speaking.
—Paula Mejía, Billboard, 5 Mar. 2025
To them, the fate of the ranch and the fate of the world are the same thing, not metaphorically speaking but morally.
—Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 2 Mar. 2025
The biographical circumstances and the reddish tinge of the foremost prisoner’s hair have led commentators to interpret the image metaphorically, even solipsistically––the prisoner becomes a cipher for van Gogh, physically and psychologically incarcerated.
—Sarah C. Schaefer, Artforum, 1 Mar. 2025
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