2010 · drama
Beyond
Directed by Pernilla August1h 39m2010
One morning just before Christmas, Leena receives a phone call from a hospital in her childhood hometown telling her that her mother is dying. This news takes her on a journey to face her mother for the first time in her adult life. Leena has fought all her life to let go of her grief over her lost and dark childhood. She is now forced to deal with her past to be able to move on.
Our read: Beyond (2010) reads as a heavy, measured, grounded drama entry — extreme in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, measured, extreme drama, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, measured.
- heavy
- measured
- extreme
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