2007 · war · drama
Assembly
Directed by Feng Xiaogang2h 3m2007
Follows a soldier trying to gain recognition for comrades who died in 1948, at a turning point in the civil war between the communists and the nationalist forces of the Kuomintang.
Our read: Assembly (2007) reads as a sombre, kinetic, grounded war · drama entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, extreme war / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- brisk
- extreme
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