What unites the three apparently very different films of this 10th, Jukebox episode of Hard Truths? In Sidney Lumet’s The Offence (1972), Sean Connery plays a detective-sergeant who has seen too much. Milton Moses Ginsberg’s underseen, Rip Torn-starring arthouse gem Coming Apart (1969) charts the psychological unravelling of a New York psychiatrist who takes to recording his clients’ appointments without their knowledge. Finally in Darren Aronofsky's Caught Stealing (2025), Austin Butler’s aimless bartender confronts past trauma via a whole new bunch of trauma. That’s right: all three films are about men’s pain – and, to varying degrees, about the sense of entitlement of these struggling lead protagonists. Elena and Manuela leave no stones unturned as they discuss these three films by way of Severance, the manosphere, and the corporate girlies.
Hard Truths is an Animus film podcast. Every other week, Animus founder and editor Elena Lazic catches up from London, UK, with her twin Manuela, who can usually be found across the pond in Paris. Expect animated conversations about cinema, digressions into unrelated topics, and trivial facts from our personal lives. Do NOT expect to immediately be able to tell us apart.
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