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The Special Ironies and Uncomfortable Complexity of Robert Greene’s ‘Actress’

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Christopher Campbell
Apr 09, 2015
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With Actress, Robert Greene now has an unofficial trilogy of films exploring characters of a certain gender at a certain age. His breakout, Kati with an i, focuses on a girl at the crossroads of womanhood as she graduates from high school. Fake It So Real deals in concepts of masculinity while documenting a week in the life of young men involved in amat…

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