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Fiction becomes autofiction.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Scriptwriter-director Mikko M\u00e4kel\u00e4&#8217;s second feature film is set in London&#8217;s fashionable literary circles. The drama has the same effortless elegance as its milieu and the same underlying unease as its cleverly sketched protagonist. Max shapes his identity in softly lit hotel rooms on the one hand and the pages of his script on the other.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><i>Sebastian<\/i> also finds other similarities between the professions of author and sex worker: in both, the packaging is important, whether the promotional images are part of a publisher&#8217;s marketing material or an online dating service. And in both, emotions become part of the job.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Kaisu Tervonen<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A writer must live the content of their work, not just write it. 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