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Blended Lives, Unfinished Forms

Three recent films exploring culture, power, and the search for meaning

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Jon Fitzgerald
May 01, 2026
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The President’s Cake

Some stories unfold through plot. Others unfold through process, through the slow reshaping of identity under pressure.

This week’s films move across different worlds — 1960s Peru, 1990s Iraq, and present-day Colombia, but share a common thread: characters navigating systems larger than themselves, whether cultural, political, or pers…

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