2017 · mystery · thriller · drama
A Day
Directed by Cho Sun-ho1h 30m2017
Three years ago, a father saved his daughter's life. After she's involved in a car accident, it looks like he'll have to do it again, no matter how many attempts it takes.
Our read: A Day (2017) reads as a sombre, breathless, inventive mystery · thriller · drama entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, extreme mystery / thriller, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- kinetic
- intense
- inventive
- twisty
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