A hardcore-pulp-yakuza-noir-madcap-joyride filled with outrageous double-crosses, close shaves, high-speed car chases, and flamboyant showdowns from Japan’s most prolific and exuberant director, Takashi Miike. At its heart, First Love, is an unshakeable romance between two rock bottom dwellers, searching for salvation in the precarious Tokyo underbelly. Society is in a troubled tailspin, corrupted by the self-serving […]
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For her second feature, director Zeina Durra installs her camera in the intoxicating historic city of Luxor, Egypt. British aid worker Hana (a bewitching Andrea Riseborough) returns to Luxor, escaping the intensity of her humanitarian work treating victims of the war on the Jordanian- Syrian border. On a boat in the ancient city, Hana encounters a […]
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