Finally, Lillian and Dan
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16-Apr-2013
A meditation on young love and its delicate hope and exhilaration, as well as its loneliness and naivete. This 2007 film had several prestigious festival screenings and then disappeared. It shouldn’t have — it’s a wholly unique and amazingly delicate piece of art. Lillian and Dan bump and misstep their way towards one another in a love story that is awkward and small, that stutters and spits, with its worry lines on its face and its heart on its sleeve.
Directed by Mike Gibissier.
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