They may seem light years apart—“True Love” is memoir and “Protocol” is science fiction—but each offers revelatory reflections on life in isolation that resonate beyond COVID.
Didion famously wrote, “We tell ourselves stories in order to live.” The characters in these films do just that—bending their realities to fit their fantasies.
It’s a big step toward normalcy from one of the first major public institutions to close down last spring.
My essential seven: Pepper Pepper.
The production is also unusual in that it allows audiences to attend in person right now through the rental of "germ pods."