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Modern Classic: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (David Fincher, 2008)

Modern Classic: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (David Fincher, 2008)

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Oene Kummer
Dec 23, 2023
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Modern Classic: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (David Fincher, 2008)
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Today we go back to David Fincher's seventh feature film, in which Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett experience an unusual and impossible love story.

Imagine being born as an elderly person only to leave this world again as a baby. It happens to Benjamin Button (Brad Pitt). His mother dies in childbirth, his father (Jason Flemyng) takes one look at the child,…

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