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- I Chose Not to Do That’ 3 days ago Göteborg Takeaways and News, From a New Renate Reinsve Movie to Rubën Ostlund, Rikke Gregersen, Banijay’s ‘Wallander’ Reboot and Much More 3 days ago Oscar Nominee Renate Reinsve on ‘Going Against Beauty Norms’ in ‘Butterfly’ and Loving Filmmakers Who ‘Challenge the Established’ 3 days ago See All Courtesy of IFFR Set in Pittsburgh in the early 1990s, “The Gymnast” follows a young athlete who, after a life-changing accident, loses her identity — much like her city.
- But director Charlotte Glynn, who also grew up there, found contemporary parallels in the story.
- “Mass amounts of people were leaving Pittsburgh and looking for work.
- Entire towns became ghost towns,” she recalls, describing the aftermath of the steel crisis in the 1980s.
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