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A middle-aged prison psychologist’s carefully managed routine and sex addiction unravel when she must travel to Bulgaria to settle her late, estranged father’s affairs. While trying to make sense of the man she never really knew, her own sense of self slowly implodes as new aspects of her family history come to light.
A decade after winning Locarno’s Golden Leopard for her feature debut Godless, Ralitza Petrova returns with an emotionally textured sophomore drama exploring the correlation between childhood wounds and adult expressions of desire. With a steady hand and impressive formal discipline, she crafts a complex character study that skillfully cushions its provocative themes in mundane moments of bureaucratic hassle and sterile institutional settings. Led by the excellent Snejanka Mihaylova as an emotionally repressed woman reclaiming her body and soul, Lust is a nuanced, polished addition to the arthouse canon that reveals its layers long after the credits roll.
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A middle-aged prison psychologist’s carefully managed routine and sex addiction unravel when she must travel to Bulgaria to settle her late, estranged father’s affairs. While trying to make sense of the man she never really knew, her own sense of self slowly implodes as new aspects of her family history come to light.
A decade after winning Locarno’s Golden Leopard for her feature debut Godless, Ralitza Petrova returns with an emotionally textured sophomore drama exploring the correlation between childhood wounds and adult expressions of desire. With a steady hand and impressive formal discipline, she crafts a complex character study that skillfully cushions its provocative themes in mundane moments of bureaucratic hassle and sterile institutional settings. Led by the excellent Snejanka Mihaylova as an emotionally repressed woman reclaiming her body and soul, Lust is a nuanced, polished addition to the arthouse canon that reveals its layers long after the credits roll.
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