2006 · drama · music
Black Snake Moan
Directed by Craig Brewer1h 56m2006
A God-fearing bluesman takes to a wild young woman who, as a victim of childhood sexual abuse, is looking everywhere for love, but never quite finding it.
Our read: Black Snake Moan (2006) reads as a sombre, steady, inventive drama · music entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, steady, measured drama / music, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- sombre
- intense
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“You want sweaty Southern gothic blues and uneasy redemption after trauma.”
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