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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)

Film

DirectorAlfonso Cuarón

Meta takes2

Figures

Form & technique

The long take in the Three Broomsticks scene → The Auteurial Signature
The Time-Turner sequence

Tropes

The Dementors → The Abject
Omission of the Marauders' backstory
Remus Lupin's transformation into a werewolf
The Marauder's Map
The exoneration of Buckbeak

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