Barcelona-born, England-trained Alberto Sciamma has forged his own path in features over the last three decades, attracted to oddball themes and genre mashups that often wound up more intriguing in description than execution. But after not quite landing the eccentric conceits of “Killer Tongue,” “Black Plague,” “Jericho Mansions,” “Bite” and “I Love My Mum,” he’s hit an unexpected home run in “Cielo,” a U.K. production shot on location in Bolivia.
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