2022 · drama · comedy
Babylon
Directed by Damien Chazelle3h 9m2022
A tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, tracing the rise and fall of multiple characters in an era of unbridled decadence and depravity during Hollywood's transition from silent films to sound films in the late 1920s.
Our read: Babylon (2022) reads as a sombre, breathless, inventive drama · comedy entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
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Sombre, breathless, extreme drama / comedy, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- kinetic
- extreme
- inventive
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How Babylon feels to watch.
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