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Voicemails for Isabelle: a grieving woman’s messages reach the wrong man on Netflix

Jill talks to someone who cannot talk back. Her sister Isabelle is dead, and a voicemail box is the only place where the relationship still runs in real time, so she keeps calling. She leaves the small catastrophes of her day on the line that used to ring in another room — the dates that go wrong, the job she is fumbling, the confessions she would never make to a face. For a while it is the most private thing a person can do: speak the unedited version of yourself to someone who can no longer hear it. Then the premise of the film arrives, and it is also the wound. The line is no longer dead air.
Molly Se-kyung

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Mexico Beat South Korea to Win Group A — but the Favourites Still Haven’t Shown They Can Score

Mexico are top of Group A with two clean sheets and the maximum return, the first team into the World Cup knockouts. But both of their goals were gifts — a red-card avalanche, then a goalkeeping collision — and Javier Aguirre’s high-line 4-1-4-1 is engineered to resist, not to create. The favourite tag survives on points; the question of how this team scores when no one hands it the goal is the one the group stage never asked.

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