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In this new-ish series members of Team Experience share movies they've watched way too often and why...

By Cláudio Alves

I don’t think I was a very ‘normal’ 12-year-old. Whatever that word might mean, I doubt it encompasses nerdy pre-teens obsessed with The French Revolution. Looking back, I’m not even sure why I was so enthralled. Maybe it was the tragedy of it all, how its horrors were as undeniable as the social changes they brought upon were necessary. Maybe it was the moral ambivalence, the complexity of its historical narrative. Maybe it was just the prettiness of the fashions.

One thing’s for sure, I was very excited by the prospect of watching Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette...

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