Thesis on a Homicide
- sombre
- cold
Sombre, steady, measured thriller / drama, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
How every film is hand-scored →Roberto is a Law professor whose life is thrown into chaos when he becomes convinced that one of his best students has committed a brutal murder. Determined to uncover the truth, he begins a personal investigation…
Our read · Thesis on a Homicide (2013) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded thriller · drama · slasher entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
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The shape of Thesis on a Homicide
What watching it is actually like.
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The reading.
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