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Caitlin Plays Herself (2011)

Caitlin Plays Herself poster
Directed by
Joe Swanberg
Genre
drama film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 09m
Rating
3.9 of 10 from 7 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A performance artist and a filmmaker play versions of themselves as they discuss their relationship and work. The movie shows them navigating creative and personal tensions in a low-key, unscripted style.

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What happens

Caitlin Plays Herself is a 2011 American drama film directed and produced by Joe Swanberg, written by Caitlin Stainken and Swanberg, and starring Stainken and Swanberg. Swanberg and Stainken, a performance artist with the Neo-Futurists, play fictionalized versions of themselves. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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