2018 · drama · music · romance
Bel Canto
Directed by Paul Weitz1h 40m2018
A famous opera singer is held hostage in South America by a guerrilla rebel group after performing at a Japanese businessman's lavish birthday party. Unexpected bonds are forged in the standoff that ensues.
Our read: Bel Canto (2018) reads as a sombre, measured, grounded drama · music · romance entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, measured, measured drama / music, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- measured
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