The Hostage
- sombre
- measured
Sombre, measured, measured drama / latvian, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →When Mostafa arrives to Ukraine, he witnesses the kidnapping of an Egyptian scientist. Eventually he gets involved in rescuing him, in a country he knows nothing about.
Our read · The Hostage (2006) reads as a sombre, measured, inventive drama · latvian entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
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