Luther Green goes to war in France in 1917. When he comes back to his family home in New Jersey, he has a surprise following him: a beautiful French girl named Nina.

Spoiler-rich meditation ahead—proceed as though unspooling brittle nitrate in a midnight projection booth. Josephson’s screenplay treats chronology like a Cubist canvas: we enter not through the expected embarkation port but via a dreamlike iris-in on Luther’s mud-veined boots, already back on Jersey soil. The war is...

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" Spoiler-rich meditation ahead—proceed as though unspooling brittle nitrate in a midnight projection booth. Josephson’s screenplay treats chronology like a Cubist canvas: we enter not through the expected embarkation port but via a dreamlike iris-in on Luther’s mud-veined boots, already back on Jersey soil. The war is never shown in set-piece spectacle; instead, its residue drips from every frame—an anti-Rights of Man move that prefers psychic shrapnel to battlefield pageantry. You feel Verdun ..."
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