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‘By Design’ Review: Juliette Lewis Takes Her Seat In Amanda Kramer’s Militantly Absurd Comedy-Drama — Sundance Film Festival

‘By Design’ Review: Juliette Lewis takes her seat in Amanda Kramer’s militantly absurd comedy-drama

Both specific in its intent and mischievously opaque in its execution, this wilfully strange art project can switch from flip to serious in the blink of an eye, using a terrific cast to weave a trance-like state of oddness that somehow sustains to the finishing line. In Sundance terms, it fills a slot left open by Miranda July, America’s poet laureate of urban dysfunction, presumed missing in action since 2020’s Kajillionaire. Title: By Design Festival: Sundance (Next) Sales agent: Range Media Partners Director/screenwriter: Amanda Kramer Cast: Juliette Lewis, Mamoudou Athie, Melanie Griffith, Samantha Mathis, Robin Tunney, Udo Kier Running time: 1 hr 31 mins

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