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Joker: Folie À Deux review: You'll go Gaga for this gripping Joker sequel, writes BRIAN VINER
Venice, a city long associated with masks was the perfect place to unveil Joker five years ago; and last month, at the film festival there, it was followed by the sequel, Joker: Folie À Deux.
Arthur is now behind bars, waiting to see whether he will be judged sane enough to stand trial for murder, and in the meantime enjoying his celebrity status with fellow prisoners and even the warders, one of whom, a sadistic Irishman played by Brendan Gleeson, feeds him cigarettes in return for jokes. The pair hit it off at a music therapy class, and are soon mutually smitten, but Lee makes it clear that she loves the dangerously charismatic Joker, 'clown prince of crime', not the gloomily introspective Arthur. Eventually, after Arthur's high-profile TV appearance with a smug interviewer played by Steve Coogan, it is time for the trial, with all of Gotham gripped by the subject of multiple personality disorder.
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