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This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Montage has the power to produce realism beyond realistic-ism. But only montage, not the collages we often mistake for montage, which are static, monotone, and one-dimensional, even when put into motion through the movie format and used to designate a passage of time (yet somehow fail to express time at all). In Phantom Thread, collections of moments are bound by the score to designate an era, a cycle, an episode of a cycle. But all of these moments are proper…