Pasatiempo

Drama, not rated, 104 minutes,

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Suicide can be a savvy career move for a female poet. Both Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton were much more widely read after their deaths. The internatio­nally famous poet Maya Dardel (Lena Olin), her best work decades behind her, is thinking along those lines when she tells National Public Radio of her imminent plans to do the deed. But first, she says on the radio, she is auditionin­g applicants to be her executor and heir, and the chosen one must be a young male poet. Women need not apply, as she dislikes

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