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It’s a good-looking movie about sublimated lives and the need to break free, one that feels torn between presenting the surface allure of those desires in a repressive time and exploring anything deeper.

"The students are being punished in a disproportionate and repressive way, which has a chilling effect on the ability for people to peacefully protest."

As the US leads efforts to negotiate peace in Ukraine, those living under Russian occupation face a brutal, repressive future.

Fitting, since both women prop up repressive regimes from which they’d like to distance themselves when the public calls for heads to roll.

The roots of sectarian conflict run deep here, nourished by decades of repressive rule by the Assad family, members of Syria's Alawite minority.