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[hand-fool] / ˈhænd fʊl /


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Khondji earned his second Oscar nomination for his work on the Mexican director’s surrealist 2022 film “Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 17, 2025

Possible snub: “Argentina, 1985” Possible surprise: “Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths”

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 20, 2023

"Bardo: False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths" is a profound, moving, imaginative and ambitious cinematic "docu-fiction."

From Salon • Dec. 16, 2022

Beginning Friday on Netflix, he can be seen as the director Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s alter ego, Silverio Gama, in “Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths,” a dreamlike fantasia of personal and political ruminations.

From New York Times • Dec. 16, 2022

The next miscellany, six years later, A Handful of Pleasant Delights, edited by Clement Robinson, is somewhat better though not much.

From A History of Elizabethan Literature by Saintsbury, George




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