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Miguel Arteta – ‘Are You The Favorite Person of Anybody?’
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After the mess that is ‘Youth in Revolt,’ my jury is still very much out on this filmmaker. He rests on the cache of older, superior filmmakers to elevate a style that he only winks at, but never controls.
I agree on Arteta, and wonder if his better earlier works were more based on the stronger writing he was working with in say, this short.