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harnesses the remake's amorphous quality of time to deftly address contemporary politics." This film forces its viewers to reconnect to and become re-aware of the historical context – the individual and radical origins of U.S. feminism's
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intentionally leaves the history of feminism incomplete – instead of following
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She is an associate producer on David
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