1982 · drama · feminist
A Question of Silence
Directed by Marleen Gorris1h 32m1982
When three women with no previous acquaintance kill a male shopkeeper in the middle of the day, the female psychiatrist assigned to the case sets out to understand why.
Our read: A Question of Silence (1982) reads as a heavy, measured, grounded drama · feminist entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, measured, measured drama / feminist, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- measured
- intense
- cold
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