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The film’s unequivocal pleasures are Mihai Malaimare Jr.’s photography (shot on rare, extra-sharp 65mm film), brilliant period production design by David Crank and Jack Fisk, and the performances by Joaquin Phoenix and Philip Seymour Hoffman. ==I — PC==

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