The Overnighters
- sombre
- measured
Sombre, measured, measured documentary, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →Desperate, broken men chase their dreams and run from their demons in the North Dakota oil fields. A local Pastor's decision to help them has extraordinary and unexpected consequences.
Our read · The Overnighters (2014) reads as a sombre, measured, grounded documentary entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
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The shape of The Overnighters
What watching it is actually like.
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The reading.
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