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May 16, 2025, 06:29AM

This is Real Life

A 2022 The Line of Best Fit interview with musician Britt Daniel vs. a 2025 RogerEbert.com interview with filmmaker Euzhan Palcy.

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Euzhan Palcy: We don’t know what will happen to you. This is real life.

Britt Daniel: And it was full of nudity and depravity and bizarro violence and sado-masochism.

Palcy: Everybody dances, they do that everywhere.

Daniel: I love that it was all one take.

Palcy: [laughs] I had a nervous breakdown.

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Daniel: Some of it’s shot on location, some of it’s shot in front of a projection of the same locations with me walking in front of that projection.

Palcy: Yes. Because when you disappear as a creator, you disappear, you die.

Daniel: Sometimes it happens that way.

Palcy: You cannot distort history.

Daniel: Why?

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Palcy: Very, very early on.

Daniel: And the picture was super fuzzy, the sound was terrible.

Palcy: It was like therapy for me, okay?

Daniel: Which is fine to say that in hindsight, right?

Palcy: You know when you fly on a plane they have those little bags if you feel like vomiting?

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