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'Look Both Ways'

Fresh Air | By David Edelstein

Published April 21, 2006 at 11:00 AM EDT

Look Both Ways is the first feature by the award-winning Australian animator Sarah Watt. Though the film is live-action, it contains bursts of animation. Justine Clarke plays a watercolors painter consumed by visions of her own demise. Our film critic has a review.

David Edelstein

David Edelstein is a film critic for New York magazine and for NPR's Fresh Air, and an occasional commentator on film for CBS Sunday Morning. He has also written film criticism for the Village Voice, The New York Post, and Rolling Stone, and is a frequent contributor to the New York Times' Arts & Leisure section.

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