Finding Altamira
- warm
- measured
- gentle
Warm, measured, gentle drama / history, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →The story of nine-year old Maria and her father Marcelino who, in 1879, found the first pre-historic cave paintings at the now world famous Altamira cave.
Our read · Finding Altamira (2016) reads as a warm, measured, grounded drama · history entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
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The shape of Finding Altamira
What watching it is actually like.
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The reading.
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