Where the director's early work was haunted by the Holocaust, the atomic bomb and the Algerian war, Life of Riley blithely celebrates love, possibility and absurdist surprises.
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This review of Life of Riley (2014) was written by Mark Jenkins and published by NPR on 23 Oct 2014.
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