By Devika Girish Expanded time: exceptional scenes from Happyend, The Mastermind, and The Secret Agent stir the viewer out of the solipsism of the classic movie plot
Can I go again? The writer-director discusses his latest, a screwball caper—with a touch of Baumbachian melancholy—about a regretful movie star played by George Clooney
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