Director/screenwriter Julia Jackson opens the curtain this weekend, nationwide, on a film that delivers on a genre I didn’t know I was missing.

Based on Isabel Greenberg’s graphic novel, 100 Nights of Hero follows a world of storybook players, built on a civilization that worships a bird-god from the sky, and manifests his will into a cruel ideology. Cherry (Maika Monroe) is supposed to deliver an heir to her wealthy husband and his royal family, but the man has neglected her and kept his faults a secret. In a bet with a fellow noble (Nicholas Galitzine), he gives one hundred days for the man to flirt with Cherry, and put her fidelity to the test. This seductive sutor is well positioned to win the secret wager over a castle, but Cherry’s handmaid Hero (Emma Corrin) is all that stands in t

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