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‘The Life And Deaths Of Wilson Shedd’ Review: Amanda Seyfried & Scoot McNairy Are Extraordinary In Tim Blake Nelson’s Unflinching Prison Drama [TIFF]

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Walt Whitman’s famous declaration, “I contain multitudes,” has been quoted so often that it has almost lost its poetry, much less its more unsettling implications. But that idea—contradiction, even paradox, as something elemental to being human—hangs heavily over Tim Blake Nelson ’s dark, dangerous, and deeply haunting “ The Life And Deaths Of Wilson Shedd .” Can someone possess a profound capacity for tenderness and connection while harboring an equal capacity for cruelty and horrific violence? Continue reading ‘The Life And Deaths Of Wilson Shedd’ Review: Amanda Seyfried & Scoot McNairy Are Extraordinary In Tim Blake Nelson’s Unflinching Prison Drama [TIFF] at The Playlist.

First report: The ‘Wilson Shedd’ TIFF Diaries: How Tim Blake Nelson made his ‘Dead Man Walking’ — and how he hopes to sell it — goldderby.com, 4d