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Mortar
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Afrique Victime
Carries a strong pull into television through after-hours and Southern Europe.
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Mortar
Keeps a workable bridge into television through after-hours and Arabic language.
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Fargo
Carries a strong pull into books through after-hours and South Asia.
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Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl
Carries a strong pull into anime through memory and migration.
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Never Let Me Go
2000s
Students at an English boarding school discover their true purpose. Mortality and acceptance.
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Afrique Victime
2020s
Tuareg guitar meets psychedelic rock. Desert blues electrified for the 21st century.
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Frieren: Beyond Journey's End
2020s
An elf reflects on mortal companions after the hero's journey ends. Time, memory, and connection.
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Ikiru
1950s
A dying bureaucrat searches for meaning. One of cinema's most profound portraits of mortality.
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Big Little Lies
Big Little Lies is a 2017 television series from United States, shaped by David E. Kelley, Jean-Marc Vallée, Andrea Arnold, and Liane Moriarty. It helps the serial catalog read as a real field of seasons, institutions, and recurring...
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Books 1950s
The Sound of the Mountain
An aging man contemplates mortality in postwar Japan. Kawabata at his most quietly devastating.
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Film 1960s
Cléo from 5 to 7
Two hours in the life of a singer awaiting medical results. Time, beauty, and mortality in Paris.
Books 2010s
Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl
It's 1993 and Paul Polydoris tends bar at the only gay club in a university town thrumming with politics and partying. He studies queer theory, has a dyke best friend, makes zines, and is a flâneur with a rich dating life. But Paul's also got a secret: he's a shapeshifter. Oscillating wildly from Riot Grrrl to leath...
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