Word: undercult
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...only imagine with what trepidation McBride and Carson, whose major previous credit is the undercult classic David Holtzman's Diary, approached the problem of remaking Breathless, updating it and resetting it in Los Angeles, the center of everything Godard was subverting. Indeed the movie never entirely shakes off its self-consciousness. But the stale, cynical air that attends most remakes is absent here. Carson knows how to write out of the side of his mouth, and McBride knows how to stage both action and eroticism; their work has a drive and energy that derive from conviction and, perhaps, good...
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