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‘Ghost Trail’ Review: Revenge Is Served Cold In Jonathan Millet’s Icily Intelligent Syrian Drama – Cannes Film Festival
Jonathan Millet's movie Ghost Trail starring Adam Bessa is quietly profound character study about the need for a closure that may never come.
A strange meeting with a woman on a park bench reveals that something more complex is going on; she leaves behind a package containing a substantial amount of cash, a book ( The Jasmine Scent of Damascus by Syrian poet Nizar Qabbani), and the name “Sami Hanna” written on one of its pages. It’s a common dilemma in a revenge movie — to get satisfaction or meekly walk away — but, with the icily intelligent Ghost Trail, Millet amplifies the agony, applying it to a whole generation of Syrians left picking up the pieces of their once-normal lives, facing an aching void where their futures used to be. Title: Ghost Trail Festival: Cannes(Critics’ Week) Director-screenwriter: Jonathan Millet Cast: Adam Bessa, Tawfeek Barhom, Julia Franz Richter, Shafiqa El Till Sales agent: MK2 Running time: 1 hr 45 min
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