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The Impressionist
Frederick Wiseman has been called a muckraker, a realist, an absurdist, a lyrical expressionist, a trenchant critic of American consumerism and imperialism, a hedonist, a champion of civic virtue, and, by Errol Morris, “the king of misanthropic cinema.” …