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This is one of the best acted and finest love stories told on screen in a very long time. It literally is a duology, if you will. I was mesmerized by the story within a story. It at times was so hard to differentiate fact from fiction in its progression, which made it a despairing dichotomy. The existence of the real world blended into the fictionalized world of the movie they were filming while the fictionalized world of what the protagonists were filming became their real world. And the blending of the two natures was seamless, flawless, and sublime. I loved the fictionalized saga as much as I loved the ‘real-life’ story behind the scenes. And it was hard to separate the two at times and honestly, I did not want to. Why? Because the fictionalized characters became the real-life personas and the real-life personas became the fictionalized characters. I frankly have never seen such flawless acting blend and mesh between the two so well. I believed both were genuine. That IS what the fantasy of cinema is supposed to do and they did exactly that! The complexities of this series are ginormous. Both ‘on’ screen and ‘off’ screen. While it is a love story between two ‘real’ individuals, they act it out via the roles in the fictional movie they are projecting. And their emotions are just as strong and real. That is the allure of this series. We see the progress of their love transform through their characterizations into whom they are as real people.