100 Movies Every Catholic Should See

100 Movies Every Catholic Should See

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100 Movies Every Catholic Should See
100 Movies Every Catholic Should See
Why You Should Watch 'The Pencil' (2019)
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Why You Should Watch 'The Pencil' (2019)

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The Film "The Pencil" and Putin's Russia - Hollywood Progressive

The industrial town where The Pencil takes place has a pencil factory and a big prison facility nearby. The skies are dark; the small roadside ‘lakes’ are actually large, slate-grey water puddles of uncertain innocuousness; and in the distance, thick, white clouds billow from factory smoke stacks. Grim-faced arrivals disembark from a boat and trod along a road that runs between imposing walls of variously-sized wooden logs piled tight and high.

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