Director Hailey Gates makes her feature debut with "Atropia," a wild satire based on a very real, insane military phenomenon.

The village is small and dense, lined with crumbling structures and the exploded remains of cars. The women, hanging laundry or selling American movies on DVD out of dusty briefcases, are suspicious.

Instead, Gates skillfully built a narrative around one of the craziest worlds we’ve never quite seen on screen. Tonally, it evokes “Argo,” a fetishistic love story set in the worst possible ...

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