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SIMON SAYS: Could TRISHNA Really Be a Michael Winterbottom Film?

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If you sat down to watch "Trishna," a modern-day adaptation of Thomas Hardy's "Tess of the D'Urbervilles" reset in contemporary India, and didn't already know that it was directed by Michael Winterbottom, you probably couldn't tell.
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