1997 · drama · slow-cinema
Bones
Directed by Pedro Costa1h 37m1997
After a suicidal teenage girl gives birth, she misguidedly entrusts her baby’s safety to the troubled, deadbeat father, whose violent actions take the viewer on a tour of the foreboding, crumbling shantytown in which they live.
Our read: Bones (1997) reads as a heavy, slow-burn, inventive drama · slow-cinema entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Heavy, slow-burn, measured drama / slow-cinema, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- heavy
- slow-burn
- intense
- bleak
- signature
- intimate
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