The dreamlike aura that surrounds the new film “The Other Me” is no surprise, considering the work is executive-produced by David Lynch and directed by a filmmaker whose previous short films have mostly been crafted with a sense of the unusual. Director Giga Agladze does indeed have a working relationship with the surreal filmmaker, as the two co-founded the David Lynch Foundation Caucasus ... more >
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MOVIE REVIEW: “The Other Me”
A rewarding character piece on the question of identity
Jim Sturgess, Andreja Pejic and Antonia Campbell-Hughes
Directed by Giga Agladze
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