As the pretender’s knowledge of the world and its ways grows, however, and his Ovidian shapeshifting continues to its disastrous conclusion, his sense of identity becomes more and more precarious.

Estonia's Vallo Toomla – whose debut "Pretenders," penned by "Compartment No 9"'s Andris Feldmanis and Livia Ulman, wooed reviewers when it premiered at 2016's San Sebastian – is due to start filming ...