2018 · drama · political · prison
A Twelve-Year Night
Directed by Álvaro Brechner2h 2m2018
Uruguay, 1973. Having been crushed by the military dictatorship, surviving members of the Tupamaro guerillas are imprisoned and tortured. They must find a way to endure the coming 12 years.
Our read: A Twelve-Year Night (2018) reads as a heavy, steady, grounded drama · political · prison entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Heavy, steady, extreme drama / political, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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