2023 · drama · thriller
A Day and a Half
Directed by Fares Fares1h 36m2023
In a desperate bid to reunite with his daughter, an armed man bursts into the medical center where his estranged wife works and kidnaps her.
Our read: A Day and a Half (2023) reads as a heavy, kinetic, grounded drama · thriller entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Heavy, kinetic, measured drama / thriller, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- brisk
- intense
- cold
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