True Detective’s Cary Fukunaga directs British star in the first competition film to screen at this year’s Venice film festival – and the first awards contender from Netflix’s unique cinema divisionDirector Cary Fukunaga has handled projects as diverse as the migrant drama Sin Nombre,a Jane Eyre adaptation with Mia Wasikowska and Michael Fassbender, and episodes of TVs True Detective. This film, and premiering at the Venice film festival,is his best film yet. Fukunaga brings flair, muscular storytelling, and directness and a persuasively epic sweep to this brutal,heartrending movie approximately child soldiers and a civil war in an imaginary West African country, based on the 2005 novel by Nigerian-American author Uzodinma Iweala.
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