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Today's NYTimes Best 1176 Film was

Seance on a Wet Afternoon (1964)

This film depends on Kim Stanley's performance to exist. And Richard Attenborough.

Without them, it is a wisp. Not believable.

With them it is a stretch but I went along with it to see these two play out the game they had started.

A kidnapping. A kid.

A well laid plan that somehow goes wrong.

How original is that?

The journey is the destination.

Stanley was a stage actress of great power. She didn't make that many movies. I don't think that they knew what to do with her.

She is not conventionally pretty and her energy is so strong that other actors get blown away.

Attenborough stands quite well in the gale.

I will give it a 3 out of Netflix5.

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