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‘The Color of the Sun’ Review: Teen Angst and Alienation Get a Sensuous Study in Okinawa

Xavier Tera's alternatingly unsettling and languorous debut lingers on a Japanese teen's fixation on a more self-assured American military brat.

‘The Color of the Sun’ Review: Teen Angst and Alienation Get a Sensuous Study in Okinawa

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Xavier Tera's alternatingly unsettling and languorous debut lingers on a Japanese teen's fixation on a more self-assured American military brat.

Both understand each other's language, but neither speaks it.

Venice: Xavier Tera's alternatingly unsettling and languorous debut lingers on a Japanese teen's fixation on a more self-assured American military brat.

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Xavier Tera's alternatingly unsettling and languorous debut lingers on a Japanese teen's fixation on a more self-assured American military brat. Both understand each other's language, but neither speaks it.

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