Living in Bondage
- sombre
- brisk
- intense
Sombre, kinetic, measured drama / horror, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →The film tells the story of a man who joins a secret cult, kills his wife in a ritual sacrifice, gains enormous wealth as a reward, and is afterwards haunted by the dead wife's ghost.
Our read · Living in Bondage (1992) reads as a sombre, kinetic, inventive drama · horror · nigerian entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
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The shape of Living in Bondage
What watching it is actually like.
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The reading.
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