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A Bride for Rip Van Winkle
JAPAN · 2016

A Bride for Rip Van Winkle

Shunji Iwai
loneliness social performance artificiality of relationships staged authenticity human connection
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Synopsis

A woman hires actors and strangers to pretend to be her friends and family at her wedding.

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