Flicks, Rebecca Barry Hill
“The weirdest love stories are always the best ones,” says Emile Hirsch’s character, Diego in Twice Born. Weird may not be the best way to describe this sweeping romance, set in the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s. Rather, it’s an intriguing tale, driven by the desire to have a child, that takes place between flashback scenes of war-torn Sarajevo, and the present day. Middle-aged Gemma (Penelope Cruz) has returned to the city with her ambivalent teenaged son, Pietro at the invitation of an old friend, Gojko (Adnan Askovic).
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