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Embedded (2016)

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Directed by
Stephen Sewell
Genre
thriller film
Country
Australia
Runtime
1h 22m
Rating
4.0 of 10 from 3 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A war correspondent meets a mysterious woman at a cocktail party and gets drawn into a dangerous power struggle.

eroticsuspensefultensesensualpoliticalseductivemoodyintense

What happens

Embedded is a 2016 erotic political thriller film written and directed by Stephen Sewell and produced by Steve Jaggi, which sees a war correspondent meet an alluring, enigmatic woman at a cocktail party, before a dangerous power play engulfs the two. The film stars Nick Barkla, Laura Gordon, Ryan Harrison, Marcus Johnson and Peter Phelps. The film premiered at the Sydney Film Festival to generally positive reviews, with Variety calling it a "diamond like work", while The Iris called Embedded "a compelling watch." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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