The Book of Laughs

color, sound, 45 min
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Life-Loss–Love-Loss-Death Leads the viewer head-on into the complex intimacy between two sisters and their losses, both growing up, and by the death of one. This is the Book of Laughs, the fairy tale ...
Rental format: 16mm

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Life-Loss–Love-Loss-Death
Leads the viewer head-on into the complex intimacy between two sisters and their losses, both growing up, and by the death of one.

This is the Book of Laughs, the fairy tale promise of good times. These sisters have touched and held on to each other through many frightening nights, and they have laughed.

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