Arrhythmia
- sombre
- brisk
- intense
Sombre, kinetic, measured drama / romance, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →Oleg is a young gifted paramedic. His wife Katya works as a nurse at the hospital emergency department. She loves Oleg, but is fed up with him caring more about patients than her. She tells him she wants a divorce. The new head of Oleg’s EMA department is a cold-hearted manager who’s got new strict rules to implement. Oleg couldn’t care less about the rules – he’s got lives to save; his attitude gets him in trouble with the new boss. The crisis at work coincides with the personal life crisis. Caught up between their patients, alcohol-fueled off-shifts, and an evolving health care system, Oleg and Katya have to find the binding force that will keep them together.
Our read · Arrhythmia (2017) reads as a sombre, kinetic, grounded drama · romance entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
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The shape of Arrhythmia
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