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689 - Trances (1981)
March 17, 2025 · 78 min

Your humble hosts stumble happily headlong into the world of avant-pop Moroccan folk music!  This week we watch what seems to be a proto-version of The Last Waltz (even though it’s not) with a documentary chronicling some of the past and and a lot of the present of the group Nass El Ghiwane.

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If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing Wes Anderson’s The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004).