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Babylon (18)
Directed by Damien Chazelle
LIVING UP to its name, Academy Award winning director Damien Chazelle’s Babylon is an epic depiction of the debauchery, greed and narcissism of Hollywood in the 1920s.
Chazelle explores the dark underbelly of Tinseltown in an ambitious extravaganza that, with a running time of more than three hours, is an assault on the senses, bursting onto the big screen like an unstoppable juggernaut. You can neither catch your breath nor take everything in as Chazelle throws everything into the mix including an elephant, a chicken and a snake.
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