The title of a film really can leave it a hostage to fortune. Never has this been better demonstrated than by Cam Archer's picture Shit Year. Starring Ellen Barkin as a retired actress, the film (unseen by this writer) played in the Directors' Fortnight and spurred Cannes attendees to endless unkind variations on its name. " Shit Year? Shit film, more like," was the most common.
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