Todd Haynes is a filmmaker that I have grown to truly love over the years. His list of films is staggeringly impressive ("Safe," "Far From Heaven," "Carol") but watching his last film, 2017's "Wonderstruck," was an endurance test. In fact, I kept asking myself "is this really a movie directed by Todd Haynes?" None of the director's visual panache or unsentimentalit worth were on display.
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The short version: "Woman Unknown" was a compromise. The jury deadlocked over "Possible Love" and "NAZA," not able to com to terms, fell back on their #3, May el-Toukhy's film.