“Do you miss the silence?”
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“Your time today is through, but you’ll spend eternity with angels and ghosts.”
There is a frantic energy to Babylon, one that initially feels as though Damien Chazelle, a purveyor of the haywire and disorderly, is dipping his toes into an indulgence that cannot be matched by even the most absorbed filmmaker making a vanity project about “the importance of movies,” a topic that seems to be on constant rotation over the last couple…