À Paisana

...uncompromising for the way it shows how the ghosts of the past stretch their fingers toward an uncertain future.

...as the credits roll, all you can think is, “Show us more, Mr. Blyth. Show us more.”

...feels seductively alive when Lucas and Andrew are alone together—either under the warm lights of the movie theater, where their shadows betray them, or as their hands touch the other’s body inside a lonely greenhouse.

...you’ll struggle to find one as vulnerable and brimming with fresh ideas as writer-director Carmen Emmi’s bittersweet thriller.