Robert Machoian’s “The Killing of Two Lovers” opens like a crime thriller: A frantic man looms over his sleeping wife and her lover with a gun.
On the edge between rugged and mountain man, David loves caring for their children, though his straight-shooting teenage daughter is a skeptic about the trial separation.
You never know when something in the air might tighten and snap, primed by a sound design that evokes creaking timber and phantom door slams. Machoian suggests that a single day of experience can cover the worries of wrangling youngsters, the ache of troubled romance, and the wildest rage.
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