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Music from All Songs Considered, available wherever you get your podcasts. Ariasters the kind of filmmaker who loves to make the viewer squirm and cringe.

He's done it with hereditary midsummer.

And now there's Eddington, which plunges us back into that familiarly distressing time of the early

days of the pandemic. It stars Joaquin Phoenix and Pedro Pascal as political rivals in a small

southwest town, and it's set during a period when many of us were social distancing and under

lockdown or something like it. As they face off, a national news story sends the town's

eclectic residents into a tailspin.

I'm Glenn Weldon.

And I'm Aisha Harris.

And today we're talking about Eddington.

I'm Pop Culture Happy Hour from NPR.

Joining us today is Walter Chow.

He's a writer, critic, and film instructor at the University of Colorado.

Welcome back, Walter.

How sad to be here.

Yes, this is a sad, strange, as I've already said, distressing movie, but let's just get into it.

So it's May 2020 in Eddington, New Mexico.

Joaquin Phoenix plays Joe Cross, the town's prickly sheriff, and Pedro Pascal is Ted Garcia, the stern mayor who's up for reelection.

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