Some movies arrive sanded down and shrink wrapped, every corner rounded off by a studio so you never catch your hand on anything. The Forbidden Lands is not one of those movies. Mattia De Pascali’s Italian feature (original title Le Terre Incolte) feels handmade in the way a wood carving feels handmade, the tool marks still in it, a little crooked, a little cursed around the edges. I watched it, I liked it, and I am about to spend several paragr…
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