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THE FLORIDA PROJECT

Directed by SEAN BAKER

Starring WILLEM DAFOE, BROOKLYNN PRINCE, BRIA VINAITE

THE SHAPE OF WATER

Directed by GUILLERMO DEL TORO

Starring SALLY HAWKINS, MICHAEL SHANNON, RICHARD JENKINS

An exhilarating vision of carefree childhood just as it intersects with adult disappointment, The Florida Project is a postcard from the frayed edges of society — in this case, a sun-blasted strip of concrete in Orlando near the magical kingdom of Walt Disney World. There stands a run-down motel called Magic Castle, painted all over in an eye-watering shade of bubblegum mauve; among its residents are six-year-old Moonee and her troubled mum Halley, a stroppy, tattooed mall rat barely out of her teens.

Halley (Bria Vinaite) drifts and grifts her way through life, sometimes selling

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