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With the return of Big Little Lies<\/i> to our television screens, we\u2019re taking a look at a film starring one of the Monterey Five\u2019s key players and her newly arrived nemesis. No, that outdoor coffee shop wasn\u2019t the first time someone demanded answers between Reese Witherspoon and Meryl Streep – they first squared off in 2007\u2032s Rendition<\/i>. All together now: \u201cJUST TELL ME HE\u2019S OKAY!!\u201d<\/p>\n
Rendition<\/i> was one of the many, many prestige titles that tried to unpack the War on Terror to underwhelming results with Oscar. But this film also had some of the highest expectations of them all due to the star wattage of Streep and newly minted tabloid staple couple Witherspoon and Jake Gyllenhaal, plus recent Foreign Language-winning director Gavin Hood at the helm. Ultimately, this film was too dull and obvious to be embraced by a critical community already impatient with these kind of very similar films, and Oscar followed suit.<\/p>\n
This episode, we discuss more Foreign Language director successes that sparked buzz for their first English-language films in the years to come, the impact of a poor TIFF reception, and the romance that wasn\u2019t meant to be. Get ready to try to tell those 00s anti-war films apart, because we have a quiz coming!<\/p>\n
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