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On this week’s episode of Someone Else’s Movie, I welcome Liz Cairns, award-winning production designer of Never Steady, Never Still and The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open and now the writer-director of the unsettling new drama Inedia, which is now  available on digital and on demand in Canada — just as star Amy Forsyth is on screens in Shook, which is also nice. Also, if you’ve been wondering what Susanne Wuest has been up to since Goodnight Mommy … well, you’ll see.

Liz wanted to talk about Rosetta, Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne’s 1999 breakout starring teenage Emilie Duquenne as a young woman struggling to keep herself and her alcoholic mother afloat after being laid off at the local factory — another film I was shocked to discover hadn’t been covered on the podcast before. But just means Liz gets to dig into it now, and find an unexpected kinship with the Dardennes’ work that threads its way into her own cinema. I’m just along for the ride, really.

You know how this goes. Subscribe to the show on AppleSpotifyYouTube Podcasts or your podcatcher of choice, or just download the episode directly from the web and listen to it while you cart a waffle iron around town, looking for an outlet.

If you’re not sick of my voice after that, you can catch up to my appearance on the Day 6 summer movie panel last weekend, where I chatted about the safe bet of family-friendly blockbusters with Rachel Ho and Dana Stevens and still wound up advocating for Sketch as the PG entertainment of the summer. Look, I am who I am.

And if everything proceeds as scheduled, I’ll be back on CBC tomorrow morning at 10am ET for a conversation about the perpetual appeal of Jaws on Commotion, because it turns out if you spend decades telling people you’re an expert about a thing they eventually believe you. I’ll post a link to the podcast version when it goes up.

Also! There’s more Shiny Things to read! Last week I tackled the new 4K releases of Warner’s The Accountant 2 and Universal’s live-action How to Train Your Dragon remake, and discovered that one of them was, surprisingly, a lot better than it needed to be. You’re a subscriber, right? C’mon, be a subscriber.

Oh, and since someone always asks, I do feel older. Creakier, anyway. I ache in the places where I used to play, as the poet said. But on we go.

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