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Vultural
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A few reviews . . (film or TV)
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12-Mar-2023, 10:42 AM

Pearl - 2022 - 7/10

Grisly, slow burn thriller might try patience of viewers expecting more X (2022) excess.
This prequel, set in rural Texas during 1918.
Influenza still slaughters millions, while boys perish in the French trenches of the Great War.
Pearl, restless daughter of German immigrants, wants out!
Outta the farm, the one-horse town, her whole dilapidated life.
Like countless others, she daydreams about becoming a Hollywood star.
The exteriors glisten, like the Land of Oz, at variance with Pearl’s home.
Smiling study of madness, delusion and violent release.
Movie buffs, check the poster for Theda Bara’s Cleopatra, lost in a fire.