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Movies 101

"Priscilla" & "Anatomy of a Fall"

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From left: Cailee Spaeny in Priscilla (2023); Sandra Hüller in Anatomy of a Fall (2023).
Priscilla, The Apartment Pictures/American Zoetrope/A24, 2023. Anatomy Of A Fall, Les Films Pelléas/Les Films De Pierre/France 2 Cinéma/Auvergne Rhône-Alpes Cinéma/Neon, 2023.

No matter how well you might think you know people, it’s difficult to say you know everything about them. That premise is especially true both for film stars and the characters they play. On this week’s show, Dan Webster, Nathan Weinbender, and Mary Pat Treuthart discuss two films that present us with characters who we think we might know, but maybe do not. The first is Elvis Presley, a central figure in Sofia Coppola’s biopic Priscilla, while the second is the protagonist of the award-winning French film Anatomy of a Fall.