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SATURDAY DECEMBER 3

VALERIAN AND THE CITY OF A THOUSAND PLANETS

Spectacularly bonkers

TVNZ 2, 7.00pm

French director Luc Besson’s crazy psychedelic space opera starring Cara Delevingne and Dane DeHaan as 28th-century space cops on a mission to retrieve an armadillo-like alien that lays magic eggs, or something. It’s utterly incoherent, it goes on for hours and at some point Rihanna turns up as a shapeshifting alien exotic dancer. (2017)

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