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he Sundance Film Festival brought the world another year of amazing films, panels, and exhibitions. We had the opportunity to learn more about some of the projects and movies that made us excited about the event. THE KILLING OF TWO LOVERS (NEXT) Divorce is never an easy experience. In Robert Machoian’s new film, The Killing of Two Lovers, he examines the lives of a family being torn apart by the unpredictability of change and the addition of new people. Machoian witnessed the struggle of divorce first hand and wanted to create a story reflecting what divorce was really like.
“I have always wanted to make a film on marriage, a film about the raw, sloppy, imperfect aspects of marriage, but I wasn’t sure how. When two of my sister’s marriages were stretched to the brink of divorce, I finally saw it,” shared Machoian. “Late nights they would call and I would listen to them talk about their husbands erratic and bizarre behaviors, scrambling to do whatever they could to save what was left of the marriage they had let fall apart.” Machoian encouraged his sisters to get a divorce and move on but chose to stay in the situation. It was then that he realized that he has not seen a film really depicted marriage, divorce and everything in
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