Limbo (1999 Sayles)
- sombre
- measured
Sombre, measured, measured drama, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →Traumatized by a fishing boat accident many years before, Joe Gastineau has given up his hopes for a life beyond the odd jobs he takes to support himself. That quickly changes when nomadic club singer Donna de Angelo and her troubled teen-age daughter enter Joe’s life. Both mother and daughter fall for Joe, increasing the friction between them. The tension continues to build when Joe invites them on a pleasure cruise up the Alaskan coast, discovering too late that the trip may cost them their lives.
Our read · Limbo (1999 Sayles) (1999) reads as a sombre, measured, grounded drama entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
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The shape of Limbo
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The reading.
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