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A Second Life

Gadeha

Lumière Films

VERDICT: A well-calibrated debut with a fine central performance, weaving together notions of class and familial betrayal when an impoverished mother sells her son’s kidney to a well-off family in exchange for a better life.

The title may be generic, but A Second Life is much more than a run-of-the-mill “disease of the we
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