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cocoon

[kuh-koon] / kəˈkun /
VERB
protect with covering
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There’s a single-take sequence in “Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell” that, over roughly 20 minutes and less than a mile’s journey, seems to distill a small corner of eternity.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 25, 2024

But in “Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell,” which accumulates one such unbroken sequence after another over a mesmerizing three hours, the continuity is spiritual as well as spatial.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 25, 2024

This spiraling, meandering trek is the underlying structure of “Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell,” an uncommonly strong feature debut from the Vietnamese director Pham Thien An.

From New York Times • Jan. 18, 2024

And 2024's longlist includes titles such as Cocoon, Dave the Diver and Dredge alongside triple-A hits.

From BBC • Dec. 14, 2023

On three occasions he’d stayed overnight in the Cocoon Inn across from the Mosque of Sultan Ouhan.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides




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