[The Daily] Venice 2017: Toback’s The Private Life of a Modern Woman

“With writer-director James Toback, you never know quite what you’re going to get, quality-wise,” writes Glenn Kenny at RogerEbert.com. “What you do know you’re going to get is something very indicative of the personality of James Toback— . . .

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