Thy Neighbour's Wife
- sombre
- measured
Sombre, measured, measured adultery / drama, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →In this short we follow Buck, who falls in love with his dog-loving married neighbor Sally-Ann. In order to be with her he swaps places with the dog…
Our read · Thy Neighbour's Wife (1988) reads as a sombre, measured, grounded adultery · drama · village entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
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The shape of Thy Neighbour's Wife
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