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‘Everest: The Other Side’ Review: A Gorgeous, Unsettling Portrait Of Grief, Risk & Extreme Ambition

The information is widely known, integral to the plot, and discussed by the filmmakers in the film's promotional material. On the festival run for " The Shrouds," a personal musing on grief following the loss of his decades-long wife, Canadian auteur David Cronenberg mentioned how he often watches films when he wants to see dead people again.

‘Everest: The Other Side’ Review: A Gorgeous, Unsettling Portrait Of Grief, Risk & Extreme Ambition

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The information is widely known, integral to the plot, and discussed by the filmmakers in the film's promotional material.

On the festival run for " The Shrouds," a personal musing on grief following the loss of his decades-long wife, Canadian auteur David Cronenberg mentioned how he often watches films when he wants to see...

In this way, to him, cinema is "a kind of shrouded post-death machine." A "cemetery," he noted.

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The information is widely known, integral to the plot, and discussed by the filmmakers in the film's promotional material. On the festival run for " The Shrouds," a personal musing on grief following the loss of his decades-long wife, Canadian auteur David Cronenberg mentioned how he often watches films when he wants to see dead people again. In this way, to him, cinema is "a kind of shrouded post-death machine." A "cemetery," he noted.

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