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Gardner’s kids, Lucca and Golden — elementary school students with a passion for ginger beer — were Whipper Snapper and Lil Deputy Doo-Doo Diaper, respectively.

Micah Jahn scored 16 points and Lucca Trujillo had 15 points for Venice.

Lucca, a former digital editor for Harper’s who has written for the New York Times and Sight and Sound, was first drawn to the director’s work while a student at the University of Iowa “because his work had the same openness, ambiguity and fierceness” of the midcentury European art-house cinema she was then studying.

One film that Lucca cites as an example of this strange melancholy: Cronenberg’s 1996 adaptation of J.G.

In the first half of the book, Lucca lays out some of Cronenberg’s films along a map of the subconscious, so that 1988’s “Dead Ringers,” the story of a deadly co-dependency between twins, becomes an example of Carl Jung’s theory of the “anima” and “animus,” of the twins desire to reconcile their male and female sides, and 1986’s “The Fly” becomes a speculation on whether illness can alter one’s identity.