Todd Haynes doesn't bother. From the beginning, he took over the soundtrack of Le Messager. It's funny. We are not in Norfolk, but in Savannah, Georgia. The houses are white and colonial. Spanish moss hangs branches.
A famous actress arrives in the vicinity to get closer to the one she will interpret on the screen. Gracie has been covered in the tabloid press: she once served time in prison for having an affair with a 5th grade teenager. She divorced, remarried her young lover. In his own way, he's also a star.
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Elizabeth turns around him. This will feed into his future role. In technical language, this is called tracking. The family welcomes him with open arms, offers him hot dogs, invites him to a restaurant. The actress spies, questions, meets the ex-husband, the children of the first bed as they say. The two women observe each other. It is not a formula. A scene brings them side by side in front of a mirror, which has...
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