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The Wailing
Why this pick
Its exquisitely controlled period setting turns erotic tension, shifting female alliances and a grand isolated house into a darkly playful psychological trap.
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MOVIE2017 1h 33m USA
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Young women take in an injured enemy soldier during the Civil War, at a Southern girls' boarding school. As they provide refuge and tend to his wounds, the house is taken over with sexual tension and dangerous rivalries, and taboos are broken in an unexpected turn of events.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Colin Farrell
Corporal John McBurney
Nicole Kidman
Martha Farnsworth
Kirsten Dunst
Edwina Morrow
Elle Fanning
Alicia
Oona Laurence
Amy
Addison Riecke
Marie
Wayne Pére
Captain
Matt Story
Confederate Soldier