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Barbara Genova

Filmmaker Claude Berri. Christies.

take that guy claude berri, he's been dead now but he was a real person, I have proof,
he was the first actor director producer like adam was the first man created
started as a two bit extra couldn't get work (wasn't pretty) said oh I know what i'll do:
i'll write screenplays for movies i can star in! my man!
which became ah guess i'll direct the movies myself
which became, dang it, now I have to find the money too
actor director producer
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he became: most important producer in france dot com
he became: legendary film mogul claude berri
maker of big time resistance pieces
maker of crazy long auteur theories, explained  

last of the titans one of a kind
not really though
just another actor director producer
his story told in a hush around the campfire, we could be him, oh same
one day  

am I in love, nah,
i've been in love
it's been some time we spent in a blue flame

Barbara Genova (she/they) is the pen name of an actress/writer who got stranded in Central Europe during the first Covid lockdown of many. She's the author of Dirt City, a monthly column hosted by Bureau of Complaint. Selected credits: Hobart, Strange Horizons, Expat Press, Misery Tourism, FERAL, Anti-Heroin Chic, Scissors and Spackle, The Bear Creek Gazette, A Thin Slice of Anxiety, IceFloe Press.

She can be found on Twitter @CallGenova and on Instagram @thebarbaragenova