‘Luxor’ Trailer: Andrea Riseborough Is Gripped by Trauma and Love in an Ancient Egyptian City

Andrea Riseborough earned raves for her performance in two films that bowed at Sundance earlier this year, two films that could not be more different.

The first, “Possessor,” which was released Friday, stars the English actress as an agent who uses a brain implant to inhabit other people’s bodies.

The second, “Luxor,” is a slow-burn romance that has Riseborough play a war-zone doctor who works through trauma and falls in love against the stunning backdrop of one of the world’s oldest cities.Below see a trailer for “Luxor,” which Samuel Goldwyn Films will release on VOD on December 4.

The film is the first in ten years from writer-director Zeina Durra, whose 2010 Sundance pick “The Imperialists Are Still Alive!,” her feature debut, was similarly well received.

“Luxor” reunites Durra with Karim Saleh, who also starred in “Imperialists.”In “Luxor,” Riseborough plays a British doctor, Hana, who temporally eaves her

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