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Atropia Review: Alia Shawkat & Callum Turner Play War Games In Absurdist Bush-Era Satire Sundance Film Festival
In writer-director Hailey Gates’ directorial debut, she dives into the Bush-era culture of toxic masculinity, nationalism and Islamaphobia with an amusing and profoundly absurdist sense of satire. Set in 2006, Atropia takes place at the titular U.S. military training ground in the California desert, where actors role-play as villagers in countries where the government plans […]
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