We have a tendency, as difficult films work the festival circuit, to reduce them to simplistic, giggle-worthy loglines, perhaps as a way to avoid grappling with work that challenges our ideas of what this medium is and how it should work. “Annette” somehow became a movie about Adam Driver singing during cunnilingus, even though that moment comprised maybe 20 seconds of a two-plus hour film; if all you read were snickering tweets about it, “High Life” is a movie about a “f*ck box.” READ MORE: Toronto Film Fest 2021 Preview: 16 Must-See Movies To Watch This brings us to Lucile Hadžihalilović’s “Earwig,” which has already become somewhat notorious as “the movie about the girl with ice cube teeth.” So it seems worth starting out by noting that.
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