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“It may be true that one has to choose between ethics and aesthetics, but it is no less true that whichever one chooses, one will always find the other at the end of the road.”
—Jean-Luc GodardYeah, I know…
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I Prefer Your Earlier Work 
After the mess that is ‘Youth in Revolt,’ my jury is still very much out on this filmmaker. He rests on the cache of older, superior filmmakers to elevate a style that he only winks at, but never controls.
I agree on Arteta, and wonder if his better earlier works were more based on the stronger writing he was working with in say, this short.