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  "textContent": "Clio Barnard returns to Directors’ Fortnight after The Selfish Giant and Ali & Ava with an adaptation of Keiran Goddard’s novel I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning. The director, whose Yorkshire upbringing is a site of belonging, has set her work in Northern England—Bradford specifically—but, honoring Goddard’s novel, places this film in post-industrial Birmingham. I See […]\n\nThe post Cannes Review: I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning Is a Captivating, Polyphonous Ode to Friendship  first appeared on The Film Stage.",
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