2002 · crime · drama · thriller
A Red Bear
Directed by Adrián Caetano1h 35m2002
Bear has never gotten over the separation from his wife and daughter after having been convicted for armed robbery and homicide and sent to prison. Now he is out, to finally get his cut of the money and reunite with his family, or at least avenge the damage done.
Our read: A Red Bear (2002) reads as a sombre, kinetic, grounded crime · drama · thriller entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured crime / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- sombre
- brisk
- intense
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