Intermission: Maxence Cyrin Plays Pixies for Greta Garbo

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Patrick James
Writer / Former GOOD Managing Editor

September 1, 2010 • 2:39 pm PDT
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The artist Maxence Cyrin transforms the classic Pixies number "Where Is My Mind" into a lovely piano piece and sets it to a scene from The Mysterious Lady, starring Greta Garbo. The results are sublimely moving.

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