An aspiring actress in an army role-playing facility falls in love with a soldier in Hailey Gates' feature debut, which also stars Callum Turner and Chloë Sevigny. By Lovia Gyarkye Arts & Culture ...

Like Gates’ short, “Atropia” opens with a near-identical scene of an Iraqi woman played by Alia Shawkat ... from a boardroom (Tim Heidecker, Chloë Sevigny). Tongue-in-cheek training ...

Enter: Fayruz (Alia Shawkat), an Iraq-ish striver who ... gave them enough material to do so. Tim Heidecker and Chloë Sevigny have some fun as the glorified camp counselors in charge of the ...

Alia Shawkat stars as Fayruz ... bearing a very familiar logo. Meanwhile, Chloë Sevigny and Tim Heidecker give brilliantly detached performances as sleazy military directors Pina and Hayden.

The film expands on Gates’ assured short Shako Mako, which observes a similar character (also played by Shawkat ... played by Tim Heidecker and Chloë Sevigny in strong but too-brief turns.

Alia Shawkat stars as Fayruz ... bearing a very familiar logo. Meanwhile, Chloë Sevigny and Tim Heidecker give brilliantly detached performances as sleazy military directors Pina and Hayden. While ...