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    As Fate Would Have It

    Jan 03, 2020 2 minutes
    RELEASE ME / By Lawrence Garcia
    Affectless voiceover relays Belonging’s sordid details over fixed-frame shots of eerily unpopulated key locations—all lit in the manner of a neon-soaked neo-noir, and filmed with obsessive, forensic precision.

    URKISH WRITER-DIRECTOR BURAK ÇEVIK’S structurally audacious second feature opens with an ominous passage that looms

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