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A WOMAN SEEMS TO HAVE THE PERFECT LIFE. She looks like Robin Wright or Meghann Fahy or, remarkably often, Nicole Kidman. Her career, if she has one, is creative or philanthropic. Her blue-blooded husb

I’ve made a lot of films about young people trying to figure out what the hell they’re doing in the world. Although I’m still wondering that myself. It’s so interesting looking back – I realised from