1981 · drama · romance
A Flight of Rainbirds
Directed by Ate de Jong1h 32m1981
Maarten, a milquetoast bachelor living with his terminally ill mother, is haunted by a nightmare in which God tells him to lose his virginity or die within the week.
Our read: A Flight of Rainbirds (1981) reads as a sombre, kinetic, grounded drama · romance entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured drama / romance, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- sombre
- brisk
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