The Dying Gaul

The Dying Gaul

Woe to him who seeks to please rather than appall

200595 min6.0 / 10

A dark psychological thriller about manipulation and predation within a three-way relationship, where grief and desire become weapons in a morally corrosive game.

A grief-stricken screenwriter unknowingly enters a three-way relationship with a woman and her film executive husband - to chilling results.

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