1996 · neo-noir · crime · thriller
Bound
Directed by Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski1h 45m1996
Corky, a tough female ex-convict working on an apartment renovation in a Chicago building, meets a couple living next door, Caesar, a paranoid mobster, and Violet, his seductive girlfriend, who is immediately attracted to her.
Our read: Bound (1996) reads as a sombre, breathless, inventive neo-noir · crime · thriller entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, extreme neo-noir / crime, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- kinetic
- intense
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