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Accompanying Metrograph’s run of American writer-director Lucy Kerr’s Texas-set ensemble drama Family Portrait, the filmmaker selects one film to share that greatly influenced her anxious, haunting debut: Hiroshi Teshigahara’s first film, Pitfall (1962).
“A story of exploitation and labor struggle swallowed by a liminal labyrinth of souls lost, falling, yearning. An urgent, bold, haunting film debut, with unexpected comedy.”—Lucy Kerr