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Roberto Minervini’s Cannes-Bound ‘The Damned’ Debunks Heroism of War, Says Director – Watch Teaser (EXCLUSIVE)
Roberto Minervini's Cannes-Bound 'The Damned' Debunks Heroism of War, Says Director – Watch Teaser
Italian-born Texas-based director Roberto Minervini is known for a distinguished career making documentaries including his so-called Texas trilogy comprising “The Passage,” “Low Tide” and “Stop the Pounding Heart.” This film, which will premiere at Cannes in Un Certain Regard, is heavily informed by Minervini’s previous work and his experience of living in the American South for more than a decade, as he says in promotional materials. “It was a very conscious choice to go back to a moment where a lot of these roots were being planted: the great divide between North and South, Christianity, a kind of toxic masculinity,” the director adds.
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