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‘Close’ Director Lukas Dhont Reveals How Christina Aguilera’s Song ‘Fighter’ Set Him On The Road To This Year’s Oscars

From the moment it premiered in Cannes, where it won the Grand Prize, Lukas Dhont’s Close became a hot bet in the International Oscar race. Following his 2018 debut Girl, which focused on a ...
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‘Close’: Behind the Scenes of the Most Heartbreaking Coming-of-Age Story of the Year

After the complicated life of his previous film, "Girl," Dhont realized it was time to write from personal experience. Lukas Dhont had a complicated journey with his first feature. The Belgian ...
NPR

If you had a particularly 'Close' childhood friendship, this film will resonate

At last year's Cannes Film Festival, the Belgian movie Close so reduced audiences to tears that many of us were convinced we had the next winner of the Palme d'Or — the festival's top prize — on our ...
NPR

An adolescent friendship fractures in the Belgian Oscar hopeful, 'Close'

If you know that when Close, a story of teen friendship from Belgian writer/director Lukas Dhont, took home the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival last year, it was widely reported that there wasn ...
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Oscar-Nominated ‘Close’ Powerfully Depicts the Pressures Queer Kids Face

Brecken Hunter Wellborn (he/him) is an educator and critic based in Dallas, Texas. He holds a Master of Arts in Critical Media Studies and teaches film studies. His writing and research areas include ...