What’s Out Tonight Is Lost

What’s Out Tonight Is Lost (1983)

January 1st, 19830h 8min

77%

Overview

Adopting its title from a poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay, What’s Out Tonight Is Lost is an elegiac film sifting through the unrecoverable. The film is a reflecting pool where vision breaks up. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2010.


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