jpFrancis Ford Coppola's Twixt wants to be literary, spooky, and meta—but ends up being a ghost story with no ghosts and less story. A film about writing that doesn't know how writing works.
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Twixt Failure and Farce: Francis Ford Coppola’s Pseudo-Literary Ghostless Shaggy Dog Story
Francis Ford Coppola’s Twixt (2011) is a cinematic curiosity that purports to be about writing, dreams, and death—and manages to mishandle all three. On paper, it sounds promising: a semi-surreal h…