The Quietude
- sombre
- intense
Sombre, steady, measured drama / thriller, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →Against the backdrop of a military dictatorship, Eugenia is reunited with her estranged family following her father’s stroke and is forced to confront dark secret.
Our read · The Quietude (2018) reads as a sombre, steady, inventive drama · thriller entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
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The shape of The Quietude
What watching it is actually like.
“You want an intense Argentine family drama with buried dictatorship-era secrets.”
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The reading.
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