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Alex Garland ‘ BRITAIN’S LIKE YOUR PET CAT. IF IT ROLLS OVER ON THE BED NOTHING HAPPENS’

Alex Garland has directed his last film. America is in its second civil war. In Washington, a three-term president hails his victories while California and Texas have teamed up as the ‘Western Forces’. Kirsten Dunst and Wagner Moura star as journalists on a mission to interview the president before his regime tumbles down.

In , Dunst and Moura, with Cailee Spaeny along for the ride, bear witness to close-quarters firefights and on-camera atrocities, refugee camps and homelessness, all shot in shuddering close-up. The film itself induces the kind

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