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Zendaya and Robert Pattison in Kristoffer Borgli's THE DRAMA (2026)

I haven't read any reviews of this (of course) or interviews with the writer/director, but it intrigues me a bit that Kristoffer Borgli has a strong outside-of-American perspective on the nature of what is revealed here as *the DRAMA* of the title, and that it is not incidental and is rather important to the story that Pattinson's Charlie is English and sees what Emma did in the past through a similar frame work. The Drama has that perspective (and I am being very careful here not to say anything about what *it* is, despite what you may have been spoiled by, thanks Reddit) without being so critical that it becomes just about that issue, if that makes sense. To put it another way, I didn't realize till the opening credits this was produced by Ari Aster and this film manages to do a better, more harrowingly and >i<howlingly>i< funny job making commentary feel grounded than his own Eddington (but I digress).  The Drama is one of those films that connects so strongl...

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