2013 · drama · music
A Thousand Times Good Night
Directed by Erik Poppe1h 51m2013
On assignment while photographing a female suicide bomber in Kabul, Rebecca – one of the world’s top war photojournalists - gets badly hurt. Back home, another bomb drops as her husband and daughters give her an ultimatum: her work or her family.
Our read: A Thousand Times Good Night (2013) reads as a sombre, measured, grounded drama · music entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, measured, measured drama / music, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- measured
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