Quarantine Watch #85: Salesman (1969)

I first heard about this when DOCUMENTARY NOW! spoofed it and then was reminded of it again during Yorgos Lanthimos’s Criterion Closet picks. These guys just don’t give up. No is not an answer for them. There are some parts in here that you just get sucked into like when one of the salesman is driving around Florida looking for a specific house and is lost. They are selling high-end bibles and it feels like this is something that only could have happened in the 20th century. It’s an art form that has died out. They don’t care about God or religion, they just care about winning and making the sale. I just know David Mamet had to have seen this before writing GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS. There’s so much of that in this.

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