2025 · thriller · drama · political
Anniversary
Directed by Jan Komasa1h 51m2025
When Ellen and Paul’s son Josh introduces his new girlfriend at their 25th anniversary party, no one suspects that it is the beginning of the end for this happy family. The new girlfriend is Liz, Ellen’s former student, who left the university, some years before, after Ellen called her out in class for her radical ideology.
Our read: Anniversary (2025) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded thriller · drama · political entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, steady, measured thriller / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- intense
- twisty
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