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How smoggy was my valley

David Jacobson’s Down in the Valley begins with seductive compositions that recall the cinema of the 1970s, with wide-screen compositions of sun-baked, hot-hot Southern California landscapes, smog-choked cars packed onto scorched highways and an image of a teen girl in cut-off shorts and a halter top smoking a cigarette. But before David Jacobson’s film is […]