2013 · drama · fantasy · sci-fi
After the Dark
Directed by John Huddles1h 47m2013
At an international school in Jakarta, a philosophy teacher challenges his class of twenty graduating seniors to choose which ten of them would take shelter underground and reboot the human race in the event of a nuclear apocalypse.
Our read: After the Dark (2013) reads as a sombre, steady, inventive drama · fantasy · sci-fi entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Sombre, steady, measured drama / fantasy, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- sombre
- inventive
- twisty
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