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His new film Fatherland, like Cold War and Ida, is shot in a lustrous monochrome that turns shadows into punctuation marks and sunbeams into something holy, and that makes its performers, chief among them an incredible Sandra Hüller, look lit from within.
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Alison Willmore, Vulture, 15 May 2026
The blasts had sent rubble and shrapnel hurtling through the theater’s portico and its tympanum, whose statuary muses, farmers, and metalsmiths were still upright but were backlit by sunbeams now that no masonry was behind them.
—James Verini, The Atlantic, 12 May 2026
This was the moment Son Doong caught us in its grasp: sunbeams cascading 120 stories from a break in the ceiling, groundwater, above us, slipping through the light like rain — and rock reflecting what seemed like the only sound in the world.
—Nicole Young, CBS News, 29 Mar. 2026
Floor-to-ceiling sunbeams are composed of cascading orchids.
—Myrna Petlicki, Chicago Tribune, 9 Feb. 2026
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Alison Willmore, Vulture, 15 May 2026
The blasts had sent rubble and shrapnel hurtling through the theater’s portico and its tympanum, whose statuary muses, farmers, and metalsmiths were still upright but were backlit by sunbeams now that no masonry was behind them.
—James Verini, The Atlantic, 12 May 2026
This was the moment Son Doong caught us in its grasp: sunbeams cascading 120 stories from a break in the ceiling, groundwater, above us, slipping through the light like rain — and rock reflecting what seemed like the only sound in the world.
—Nicole Young, CBS News, 29 Mar. 2026
Floor-to-ceiling sunbeams are composed of cascading orchids.
—Myrna Petlicki, Chicago Tribune, 9 Feb. 2026
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“Sunbeam.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sunbeam. Accessed 20 May. 2026.
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sunbeam
noun
sun·beam
-ˌbēm 
: a ray of sunlight
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