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David Byrne Channels the Weird and the Ordinary in ‘True Stories’
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David Byrne Channels the Weird and the Ordinary in ‘True Stories’

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/ 16 January 2019

As a piece of both cultural history and film history, David Byrne's True Stories takes its place alongside two other films from the mid-'80s that are also steeped in a surrealistic other-worldly place, Repo Man and Blue Velvet.

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