Him
- sombre
- measured
- cold
- intimate
Sombre, measured, gentle drama, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
How every film is hand-scored →Lacking inspiration, a composer isolates himself at a desolate house, on a small island, in Brittany. There he finds an old piano and receives visits from people who won't let him rest.
Our read · Him (2021) reads as a sombre, measured, inventive drama entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
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The shape of Him
What watching it is actually like.
“You want a mysterious French drama about a composer's creative block and unsettling island visitors.”
Skip it tonight — Skip if quiet, enigmatic stories about isolation and inspiration leave you cold.
The reading.
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