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The Taking
Dir.: Alexandre O. Philippe | 76 minutes

The Taking

USA 2021 | 76 minutes | English | Hebrew subtitles

An examination of Monument Valley's representation in cinema and advertising since John Ford's STAGECOACH (1939), THE TAKING scrutinizes how a site located on sovereign Navajo land came to embody the fantasy of the “Old West,” replete with self-perpetuating falsehoods, and why it continues to hold mythic significance in the global psyche.