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The marriage movie

When our best auteurs make movies about marriage, they often make their best movies.
Two people embrace in the center of a ballroom, balloons having fallen on the floor all around them. A band plays onstage.
I still constantly think about how great this shot from Phantom Thread was. (Credit: Focus Features)

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Emily St. James

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