An academic on the run in 1970s Brazil; a Saharan search for a missing daughter; an animated childhood in ’60s Japan...

A Power move

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Child’s Play

Dir Andrzej Zuławski, France/West Germany, 1981 Second Sight Films, 4K/Blu-ray There’s a phenomenon in film fandom right now in which people comb over every image, set design, set dressing and so fort