“Nicole! I loved you in Birth!”

“And now, my child, it’s time to love me in death.”

Which cinema will dare program the triple-bill, and who is going to direct MICHAEL (2041)

Maybe Film Twitter is already abuzz about this, but has anybody else noticed that Markus Schleinzer’s MICHAEL (2011) falls at the exact midpoint of the timeline between Nora Ephron’s MICHAEL (1996) and Antoine Fuqua’s MICHAEL (2026)

Variety’s @guylodge.bsky.social returns for two films that faced similar controversies over their supposedly "irresponsible" use of child actors: Jonathan Glazer’s 2004 drama BIRTH and Sandra Wollner’s little-seen 2020 sci-fi provocation THE TROUBLE WITH BEING BORN

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