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THE TRAVELER

In season 8 of his CNN travel show Parts Unknown, Anthony Bourdain visits a psychoanalyst during a trip to Buenos Aires, a city some have called the psychoanalytic capital of the world.

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HOT STUFF

Picture this: One Saturday morning in the mid- 1980s, a ten-year-old boy and his mother are roaming the weekly farmers’ market in a college town in western Massachusetts.

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CUT

Why do we seek out pain, and how does the pursuit differ in men and women? Filmmakers around the globe have mined for the answers. Here are eight double features with male protagonists who just can’t get enough pain, punishment, and self-destruction.

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TEMPORALITY AND THE FIGHT FOR MEANING IN ‘THE FATHER’ (2020)

In a pivotal scene very near the end of Florian Zeller’s 2020 film The Father, the titular character Anthony (played by Sir Anthony Hopkins) says to a caregiver in a heartbreaking moment of memory struggle, “I feel as if I’m losing all my leaves ... the branches and the wind and the rain ... I don’t know what’s happening anymore.”

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