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A director from this country noted that “the only reason they link us together is because we are all” from this country when discussing a controversial term critic James Quandt coined to describe a trend in films from this country. In a film set in this country, a static shot of a teenage girl dancing to Blondie’s “Call Me” smash cuts to a silent shot of a group of police streaming out of the back of a van; earlier in that same film, a young man in heavy makeup lip-syncs to Shirley Bassey’s cover of “My Way.” In another film, two characters drown while trying to (*) escape a fire in a doll factory in this (10[2])country; in a (10[2])third, the (10[1])young Tito is killed after he is locked in an electrical room by his mother, a member of a dance troupe from this country. For 10 points, the widely debated “New Extremity” movement is often associated with which country, whose directors include Bertrand Bonello and Julia Ducournau? ■END■

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