The State of Things
They didn't want to kill him. They just wanted a story.
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3/22/1982Runtime
121 minsGenres
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On location in Portugal, a film crew runs out of film while making their own version of Roger Corman's The Day the World Ended (1956). The producer is nowhere to be found and director Munro attempts to find him in hopes of being able to finish the film.
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A meta-meditation on filmmaking itself, where a stranded crew's search for their missing producer becomes a slow-burn exploration of creative desperation and the gap between artistic vision and reality.
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