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Ema

directed by Pablo Larraín 102 minutes

It’s an arresting opening image – a traffic light crackles and burns, suspended above an empty Valparaíso street. There’s faint skylight and we hear a ship’s horn. An edgy, elegiac music track picks up as the camera pulls back to a woman, in a

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