Welcome to Critical Darlings, a conversation about the award season conversation.

One contender at a time.

Please welcome to this stage, your hosts, Richard Lawson and Alison Wilmore

Well thank you as ever to Marie Barty for that lovely introduction

But actually I can thank you in person Marie Barty Salinas because you're here with us

Thank you for joining us I mean I'm so honored

We're not going to make you do the actual intro live Oh I was was prepared to do it. Yeah, I was kind of looking forward to it. Do it an outro. Welcome to Bagonia podcast. We're here, as always, with producer Ben back from Mexico. Hello. Hello. There you go. That's, uh, that's hello in Spanish. I love it i love it before we get into bagonia um can i tell

you guys a little bit about my trip to utah i would love to hear about your trip to utah to

see you know my my church is based there and you sing in the choir yeah it's a claim it's more of a

tabernacle but yeah um but there happened to be a film festival happening.

Yeah, I went to Sundance for the better part of a week.

It was the last one in Park City, Utah, before the festival moves entirely to Boulder, Colorado.

And it was a weird week for that reason, but also just the movies weren't very good.

I heard.

Yeah.

So that was like a common thing.

It wasn't just me, right?

Like that was kind of the common sentiment that people heard about it.

Yeah.

Although I wonder, I haven't been to Sundance in a couple years, but I did feel in the years that I went, the hit to miss ratio is pretty lopsided.

And look, I will allow for the potential that like that was always the case. And we just sort of

remember past Sundance with like the hindsight of like, oh, this was the good stuff and who cares

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