An obsession with the past conceals present truths

An obsession with the past conceals present truths Owen Wilson and Woody Allen are pictured at the Cannes Film Festival in 2011. Photo: Georges Biard.

The daily Office of Readings includes an excerpt from a homily by St Augustine, which may be a funny place to begin a film review. Nonetheless, I’m going to take an excerpt from it now: “What fresh sort of suffering, brothers, does the human race now endure that our fathers did not undergo,” the great…

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