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This article was originally published on March 13, 2023 out of the South By Southwest Film Festival.

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We are recirculating it now timed toNational Anthems theatrical release.

(Apologies toJeremy Irvine.)

(The excellent soundtrack does include Perfume Genius, Angel Olsen, and Mazzy Star, though.)

Gilford picked a fitting muse in Plummer, whose unassuming eyes yearn for experience.

The Idris Elbra dramaConcrete Cowboy, meanwhile, explored gentrification through the lens of Black wranglers in Philadelphia.

National Anthemgrants familiar coming-of-age beats a fresh backdrop.

And yet their utopia is no fantasy hearts break here, too.

This is but a chapter in Dylans biography.

The rest of his life comes next, afterNational Anthemfades to black.

Dylans new friends, bruised but hardly broken, have already found themselves.

Now its his turn.

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