Pale Star (2016)
When isolation leads to desolation
Genre : Drama
Runtime : 1H 19M
Director : Graeme Maley
Synopsis
PALE STAR is about the possessiveness of love. About how that possession peels back to expose power and control until we can see, in its dark heart, not love but murder.
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