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: The narrative examines how Syd and Lucy initially exploit one another to advance their careers—Syd for a promotion and Lucy for a professional comeback.

If you track down , do not look for a restored 4K director’s cut. Watch the grainiest, subtitled version you can find. Turn off your phone. Notice: high-art-1998-fylm-mtrjm

. Her conventional life with her boyfriend is disrupted when she discovers her upstairs neighbor is Lucy Berliner (Ally Sheedy), a once-famous photographer who mysteriously withdrew from the art world years prior. : The narrative examines how Syd and Lucy

Gone was the quirky, wholesome teen; in her place was a weary, leather-jacketed, casually sexual woman with heavy-lidded eyes and a magnetic lethargy. Sheedy’s Lucy is not a caricature of an addict; she is a woman of immense talent who has lost the will to care about the product of her genius. She captures the seductive quality of the "tortured artist"—the way Lucy’s detachment makes her seem almost invulnerable, even as she is decaying from the inside out. Turn off your phone