Two Plains & a Fancy
Contemporary Cinema
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1h 29m
Directed by Lev Kalman and Whitney Horn | 89 mins | 2018
A dandy, a mystic, and a geologist adrift in the Colorado desert: here Kalman and Horn take what sounds like it could be a set-up for a joke and turn it into a wry and layered period piece. Urbanites set out for unfamiliar territory in search of unknown pleasures, in an era removed from our own—in this case, the 1890s.
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