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Director Agnès Varda and photographer/muralist JR journey through rural France and form an unlikely friendship.


Chronicles the creation of The Metropolitan Museum of Art's most attended fashion exhibition in history, "China: Through The Looking Glass," an exploration of Chinese-inspired Western fashions by Costume Institute curator Andrew Bolton.
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The First Monday in May is a documentary film released in 2016 exploring themes of art museum, the met gala. Directed by Andrew Rossi, it stars Andrew Bolton, Wong Kar-Wai, Karl Lagerfeld. Chronicles the creation of The Metropolitan Museum of Art's most attended fashion exhibition in history, "China: Through The Looking Glass," an exploration of Chinese-inspired Western fashions by Costume Institute curator Andrew Bolton.
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