HeyJaredHard Truths - an Animus film podcast
Every other week, Animus founder and editor Elena Lazic catches up from London, UK, with her twin Manuela, who can usually be found across the pond in Paris. Expect animated conversations about cinema, digressions into unrelated topics, and trivial facts from our personal lives.
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Catch Up - Visions and Revisions (opens the original)
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In this catch up episode, Elena and Manuela discuss Dolly Parton and the fantasies of 9 to 5 (Colin Higgins, 1980), the undeniably dystopian One Night Only (Will Gluck, 2026), the butt of the joke in Nathan Fielder’s The Rehearsal (2022-), trust in Oasis of Fear (Umberto Lenzi, 1971), stifling social codes in La Règle du jeu (Jean Renoir, 1939), identity and choices in At Close Range (James Foley, 1986), and much more. Hard Truths is an Animus film podcast. As often as they can, Animus found
Obsession / Bad Timing (opens the original)
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When Curry Barker’s Obsession (2025) came out in cinemas a few months ago, a small debate emerged online about audience reactions and the director’s intentions. Was this a film about dating a “crazy” girlfriend, or about misogynistic fantasies of domination and control? Although most online discourse could do with more nuance, in this case it is important to be categorical: Obsession is unambiguously a film about a r*pist. A few weeks after the film came out, Elena happened to organise a screeni
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