Palm Trees in the Snow
- measured
Neutral, measured, measured drama / history, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →Spain, 2003. An accidental discovery leads Clarence to travel from the snowy mountains of Huesca to Equatorial Guinea, to visit the land where her father Jacobo and her uncle Kilian spent most of their youth, the island of Fernando Poo.
Our read · Palm Trees in the Snow (2015) reads as a neutral, measured, grounded drama · history · romance entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
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The shape of Palm Trees in the Snow
What watching it is actually like.
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