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It wants to be a sharp satire about the unquenchable desire for (not only) media fame for which some people are willing to sacrifice anything. It also wants to be a dramatic dark comedy, like something from the Coen Brothers, where ordinary people get involved with real criminals and become entangled in a maze of lies they can’t escape with their honour intact. The efforts to achieve this are very evident, but it doesn’t work and the film feels stuffy and outdated. The cast is good, the characters not so much, everyone is either evil, fake or stupid. (16/02/2021)