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Recent Examples of exemplumIn 2013, the Italian playwright Stefano Massini turned this exemplum into The Lehman Trilogy, an epic five-hour play that was adapted and condensed last year by the director Sam Mendes and playwright Ben Power for the National Theatre in London.—Sarah Churchwell, The New York Review of Books, 11 June 2019
There’s a whole other movie happening within Good Fortune‘s attempt to Aesop-fable its way to some moral about a modest life being a more fulfilling one even if you’re forced to live in your car.
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David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
17 Oct. 2025
The film, a political fable, is about Marcel, a widower, a quiet man seeking refuge in a safe place, and a place of safety to raise his young son, while paranoia reigns around him.
Matilda had asked, politely interrupting the beginning of what promised to be a windy narrative about the two sorry sons.
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Lizz Schumer,
PEOPLE,
17 Oct. 2025
Well aware of the narrative surrounding the bullpen this October, the Los Angeles Dodgers turned to a slew of relievers in hopes of changing the discourse.
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