The State of Things

The State of Things

They didn't want to kill him. They just wanted a story.

1982121 min6.4 / 10

A meta-cinematic drama about a film crew stranded in Portugal, grappling with creative collapse and the murky boundary between fiction and reality.

On location in Portugal, a film crew runs out of film while making their own version of Roger Corman's The Day the World Ended (1956). The producer is nowhere to be found and director Munro attempts to find him in hopes of being able to finish the film.

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