Someone to Love
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1h 49m
Directed by Henry Jaglom | 111 mins | 1987
This intimate meta-fiction, in which Jaglom plays a director who gathers a group of his single friends on Valentine’s Day so as to probe them for their views on love and loneliness, marks the final screen appearance of Orson Welles, a close friend of Jaglom’s. The party setting of a soon-to-be demolished movie theater augments the poignance of both Welles’ presence and the cast’s improvised ruminations.
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