While on a train trip, Mary Ryan runs into her old friend Jane Loomis. Mary was once a professional thief but is now reformed.


The first image in Live and Let Live is a locomotive headlamp boring through pre-dawn cobalt, a round eye that sees everything and forgives nothing. That orb reappears in close-up on Mary Ryan’s widened iris the moment she decides to become Jane Loomis—an iris ringed with the sulfur-yellow of moral insomnia. Dulcie C...


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" The first image in Live and Let Live is a locomotive headlamp boring through pre-dawn cobalt, a round eye that sees everything and forgives nothing. That orb reappears in close-up on Mary Ryan’s widened iris the moment she decides to become Jane Loomis—an iris ringed with the sulfur-yellow of moral insomnia. Dulcie Cooper lets that iris tremble for a full three-second hold, an eternity in 1924 syntax, allowing the audience to feel the crime being born not in the fingers, but in the gelatinous ..."

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