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Interestingly, critics suggest that this film might be self-boycotting, meaning the industry and audience are effectively boycotting it themselves by simply ignoring it. With no promotional push and negligible appeal to the broader audience, studios like Focus Features—which produced the film—seem to be producing content that inherently struggles to find a market.
Because of its poor reception and low earnings, it is unlikely that the studio would be forthcoming about its budget or production costs. This lack of transparency could be a sign that the project was not a strategic investment but rather an ideological project with limited commercial ambition.