[Video] Discussion with Ali Taylor about Fat Girl and Twentynine Palms
Author and academic writer, Ali Taylor, joins Zoë Rose Smith to discuss two films from the New French Extremity movement; Fat Girl and Twentynine Palms.
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When V/H/S first hit our screens in 2012, nobody could have foreseen that 11 years later we’d be on our sixth instalment (excluding the two spinoffs) of the series.
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