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"Beau Is Afraid" & "R.M.N."

Movies 101
Spokane Public Radio

Some weeks go by and you see films that don’t stay with you for more than five minutes. Others keep you deep in thought for days on end. On this week’s show, Dan Webster and Nathan Weinbender will be discussing a pair of films that fall in the second category, Ari Aster’s Beau Is Afraid and Cristian Mungiu’s R.M.N.

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