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The Woman Who Ran
Why this pick
It shares the quietly humorous accumulation of visits, meals, drinks and chance encounters, with small conversational shifts carrying more weight than conventional plot.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
A female novelist takes a long trip to visit a bookstore, run by a younger colleague who has fallen out of touch. Then she goes up a tower on her own and runs into a film director and his wife. They take a walk in a park and meet an actress, after which the novelist tries to convince the actress to make a film with her. She and the actress get something to eat, then revisit the bookstore where a group of people are drinking. The actress gets drunk and falls asleep...
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