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One of the great discoveries of this year's New York Film Festival is Who's Camus Anyway, a captivatingly detailed ode to community and the movies; it's the rare Altmanesque tapestry that deserves mention in the same sentence as great films like Short Cuts and The Player. The film's stunning opener—a long shot that surveys the campus surrounding an arts school where a group of film students are about to shoot a project that echoes the essence of Albert Camus's The Stranger—even makes reference to the infamous long shot that opens The Player, and though it's scarcely a technical wonder, it still takes your breath way. With this one visionary shot, director Mitsuo Yanagimachi introduces every character in this film for film lovers, charting the rituals of school life and offering glimpses of the personal dramas that will unveil throughout the story.