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In the living room, a gold Egyptian side table her grandmother purchased in the gift shop of the King Tut exhibit rests next to a cozy tufted couch.

A “New Members Orientation” memento candle on the side table was unlit.

On a side table, books seemingly chosen to evoke empathy for Ukraine’s plight awaited Mr. Buffett: a compilation of Mr. Zelensky’s wartime speeches and an account of children’s experiences during the war.

In the lockdown phase of the pandemic, broadcasting from the attic of his Connecticut vacation home, with a mysterious copy of “The Thorn Birds” on a side table, a painting of a sea captain for a sidekick and his children running through, fit his casual air.

The film has a keen interest in visual details that build a world, and a mood, that stick: the specific disarray atop a side table, the way fabric falls off a shoulder, the late-afternoon light through a curtain.