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Rendition – Coup-de-cinema: the grammar of film

Posted on October 3rd, 2008 by Zettel Film Reviewer

Tweet Rendition – Gavin Hood Coup-de-Cinema is the only term I can think of to describe the quite extraordinary twist that ends this otherwise workmanlike, enjoyable but unremarkable political thriller. The practice of political ‘rendition’ is new enough not to appear in the dictionary as a separate meaning from one of its literal senses of […]

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