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    Post dates are when I watched, parenthetical dates are the year of US release (aka Oscar eligibility).

8/14/2021

Kajillionaire (2020)

"Old Dolio" (named for a dying bum in hopes he'd write her into his will) only knows the life of a small-time grifter. Her parents have raised her as a partner, never bothering with actual parenting or affection. Instead, they focused on teaching her the basics, such as line of sight for surveillance cameras. When her parents befriend a personable young woman on a plane, Old Dolio is immediately wary. But the newbie is eager to get in on the fun, and actually has a couple of good ideas. 

I was unsurprised to see, as the credits rolled, that Miranda July is the writer/director. It had her "incredibly weird but also somehow very relatable" stamp all over it. The one thing I wish had been different was the odd voice that Evan Rachel Wood was using. 

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