A Million Miles Away

Jennifer Reeder

IndieLisboa 2014 • Cinema emergente

United States, Fiction, 2014, 28′

In A Million Miles Away an adult woman (the conductor) on the edge of failing faces a pack of teenage girls (the choir) and experiences a supernatural version of coming-of-age while listening to the infectious beat of an 80s heavy metal song rearranged as a lamentation.

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