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In Praise of Folly
2010
Overview
During his whirlwind career as a director, Michael Winterbottom has emerged as something of a chameleon. Befuddling auteurists who reduce directors’ careers to a constricting set of themes and stylistic choices, Winterbottom’s films include sober adaptations of Thomas Hardy, forays into political cinema such asWelcome to SarajevoandIn This World, an earnest jab at dystopian science fiction—Code 46—and9 Songs, a curious amalgam of hard-core sex and rock-concert film. Despite this dizzying eclecticism, Winterbottom’s recent films—9 Songs, 24 Hour Party People(a faux biopic of the British rock impresario Tony Wilson), and his most recent
