Mr. GRAY: (Singing) Life in slow motion, somehow it don't feel real.

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Life in slow motion, somehow it don't seem real.

NPR: David Gray, Beyond 'Babylon'

Life in slow motion, somehow it don't feel real.

NPR: David Gray, Beyond 'Babylon'

Truffaut gives the film a sleek, futuristic design (with sharp retro touches) and a flamboyant palette, and offers a dazzling panoply of cinematographic techniques (including slow-motion photography and superimpositions) to conjure the psychic derangements of life in an irrational yet chillingly ordered world.

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