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FILM REVIEWS<br />
PLEASE BABY PLEASE<br />
Amanda Kramer<br />
“It’s the rare film that proves capable of achieving genuine novelty, and even rarer to find one that manages to parlay novelty alone<br />
into success. Too many such aspirants resort to gauche gimmickry or conceptually florid moonshots that result only in scaled-up<br />
failures. On its face, it might seem strange to observe this when talking about Amanda Kramer’s Please Baby Please, a film not just<br />
indebted to but intentionally cribbing from a number of aesthetic and modal reference points. But if every story tells a story that has<br />
already been told, it follows that recreation is creation. Given the thematic and discursive well it’s drawing from, it’s not surprising that<br />
at the core of the film’s singular makeup is a profound sense of the familiar, but in taking pains to defamiliarize these recognizable<br />
parts before carefully recomposing them, Please Baby Please proves to be like few other films you’re likely to have seen.” <strong>—</strong> LUKE<br />
GORHAM<br />
DIRECTOR: Amanda Kramer; CAST: Andrea Riseborough, Harry Melling, Demi Moore; DISTRIBUTOR: Music Box Films; IN THEATERS:<br />
March 3; RUNTIME: 1 hr. 35 min.<br />
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