2014 · drama · slow-cinema
August Winds
Directed by Gabriel Mascaro1h 17m2014
Shirley has left the big city to live in a small seaside town and look after her elderly grandmother. She drives a tractor on a local coconut plantation, loves rock music and wants to be a tattoo artist. She feels trapped in the tiny coastal village. She is involved with Jeison, who also works on the coconut farm and who free dives for lobster and octopus in his spare time.
Our read: August Winds (2014) reads as a sombre, slow-burn, inventive drama · slow-cinema entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Sombre, slow-burn, measured drama / slow-cinema, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- sombre
- slow-burn
- intimate
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