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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
01
Why this pick
Its icy Los Angeles satire shares The Canyons’ fascination with fame, money and intimacy turning poisonous, using deliberately artificial performances and a mood of escalating emotional cruelty.
02
Why this pick
Another sleek, hostile L.A. nightmare where beauty is currency and relationships become predatory; its stylized surfaces and cool, ominous pacing closely suit The Canyons’ sensibility.
03
Why this pick
Its detached digital look, transactional eroticism and emotionally evasive characters make it a particularly close companion to The Canyons’ clinical portrait of desire and control.
04
Why this pick
Less Hollywood-focused but equally corrosive, it centers on a relationship unraveling through cruel conversational games, unstable perspective and sustained psychological pressure.
05
Why this pick
Its sun-bleached 1980s Los Angeles milieu of privileged, disconnected people offers the same bleak view of wealth, sex and casual cruelty, with an intentionally hollow atmosphere.
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01 / THE STORY
When Christian, an L.A. trust-fund kid with casual ties to Hollywood, learns of a secret affair between his girlfriend Tara, a former actress, and the lead of his film project, he spirals out of control, and his cruel mind games escalate into an act of bloody violence.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Tara
Ryan
Cynthia
Hoodie Guy
Erik
Receptionist
Christian
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