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Christopher Small about «Orpheus» for «Fantasy Double Features»

In MUBI's annual "Fantasy Double Features" project, various films are brought together in the form of diary entries by personal associations of film critics. Christopher Small wrote about "In Wanda's Room" (Pedro Costa, 2000) and "Orpheus" (Vadim Kostrov):
«Being with Pedro Costa here in Prague for a retrospective at Kino Ponrepo in October—where I finally saw In Vanda's Room after dreaming about it for years—and in parallel discovering the six films by Vadim Kostrov at a succession of festivals post-lockdown were major highlights, cinematic or otherwise, in a rather bleak and colorless year».

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