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Hey, does this sound at all familiar?


“[This character] was life and hope, as she is the only one carrying a child. This is a society without procreation, so that’s why they make such a fuss about finding a girl being pregnant. I got that whole idea by reading about elks in Lapland: suddenly these herds would stop reproducing, and no one could figure out why.”


A description of the premise of a certain dystopian thriller now in US theaters? Nope. It’s Robert Altman describing his 1979 picture “Quintet,” quoted in “Altman on Altman,” edited by David Thompson (2005).

Jim Emerson

Jim Emerson is the founding editor of RogerEbert.com and has written lots of things in lots of places over lots of years. Mostly involving movies.

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