2019 · history · drama · thriller
An Officer and a Spy
Directed by Roman Polanski2h 12m2019
In 1894, French Captain Alfred Dreyfus is wrongfully convicted of treason and sentenced to life imprisonment at the Devil’s Island penal colony.
Our read: An Officer and a Spy (2019) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded history · drama · thriller entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, steady, measured history / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
- sombre
- cold
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