It all started with a visit to a morgue in Belarus. (Just in case you’re wondering: No, the writer of these lines has never started an article with those words.) White Snail , the new movie from directors Elsa Kremser and Levin Peter , which world premiered in competition at the 78th edition of the Locarno Film Festival on Friday, is different, to say the least.

“A Belarusian model dreaming of a career in China finds herself drawn to a mysterious loner who works the night shift at a morgue,” reads a synopsis of the movie, which stars Marya Imbro and Mikhail Senkov as Masha and Misha, respectively. “Their encounter unsettles her sense of body, beauty and mortality.” The film promises ”the fragile love story of two outsiders who turn each other’s worlds upside down and discover t

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