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Lav Diaz’s ‘Phantosmia’ Debuts Trailer Ahead of Venice Premiere (EXCLUSIVE)


Lav Diaz's 'Phantosmia,' which has its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival in the out of competition section, has debuted its trailer.

A counselor/psychiatrist suspects it to be a lingering case of phantosmia, a phantom smell, and possibly caused by trauma, a deep psychological fracture. One recommended radical process to cure the ailment was that Hilarion must go back and deal with the darkest currents of his past life in the military service. Thus, he became a true fighter and a warrior, by his own reckoning, but a very violent one, and he believed then that violence was part of his duty, and it is a natural attribute of the military and police institutions.

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