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Andrea Long Chu, Vulture, 5 Aug. 2025
Jane met Paul Tillich, a German-American theologian and Christian existentialist philosopher, through Jacques Lipchitz.
—Rima Suqi, Forbes.com, 24 July 2025
Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 28 Aug. 2025
This existentialism is far from the heroic, politically committed, existentialist vision of Sartre and de Beauvoir.
—Sheila Heti
august 25, Literary Hub, 25 Aug. 2025
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Noun
But Williams is an old-fashioned existentialist.
—Andrea Long Chu, Vulture, 5 Aug. 2025
Jane met Paul Tillich, a German-American theologian and Christian existentialist philosopher, through Jacques Lipchitz.
—Rima Suqi, Forbes.com, 24 July 2025
Adjective
Ultimately, this film’s absurd existentialist deadpan aligns Lanthimos’ work here closer to Ruben Östlund than ever — himself a filmmaker likely drawing from Lanthimos these days — to mine the comedy of repetitious futility to disorienting effect.
—Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 28 Aug. 2025
This existentialism is far from the heroic, politically committed, existentialist vision of Sartre and de Beauvoir.
—Sheila Heti
august 25, Literary Hub, 25 Aug. 2025
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“Existentialist.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/existentialist. Accessed 4 Sep. 2025.
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