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The film is both funny and achingly sad; difficult to get a handle on, as grief so often is.

And while Selena may have been achingly close to achieving the crossover success of her dreams when she was killed in 1995, the scope of her influence grew in her death.

But as she starts to bond with the massive, temperamental animal, Iris realizes that Apollo echoes many of the conflicting qualities she associated with Walter: demanding, impossible, achingly soulful.

Trachtenberg knew what it was like to be a kid who wants to be seen, who is aching to be understood.

Miranda July has hit a creative, life-giving stride, at 50, with her deeply funny and achingly true new novel, ‘All Fours’ -- her first in almost 10 years.