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Director Atsushi Nishigori Breaks Down the Brightly Colored Chaos of His New Triptych ‘Grotesqqque’

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The eyeball-melting anthology feature film Grotesqqque is all about the rule of cool, a group of stories where the vibe and the look took precedent.

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