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Yvonne Rainer's third feature is ostensibly the tale of a Hungarian lion tamer who moves to New York to become a dance choreographer. As ever with the daring director, things are not so simple. After an opening monologue that sets the terms of engagement — namedropping Virginia Woolf and cinema's great deconstructor Jean-Luc Godard — Rainer utilises an array of avant garde devices to blur the line between narrative feature, essay film and documentary. In doing so, she crafts a singular work that fearlessly takes on the disjunctures and hypocrisies that exist between private and public selves.