Dream Team 1935
- warm
- brisk
- redemptive
Warm, kinetic, measured drama / sports, grounded in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →Geneva, Switzerland 1935. The first European Basketball Championship is about to take place. Basketball is still an unknown sport in Europe, and the national teams are meeting for the first time. Each wants the honour of being the first champion. Meanwhile in Latvia, coach Baumanis is convinced that he can assemble a team and take it to Geneva. He quickly learns however, that triumph and defeat are also part of the game. Coach Baumanis faces many difficulties, as well as unexpected help from those closest to him.
Our read · Dream Team 1935 (2012) reads as a warm, kinetic, grounded drama · sports · latvian entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.
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The shape of Dream Team 1935
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