2024 · action · sci-fi · mystery
Breathe
Directed by Stefon Bristol1h 33m2024
Air-supply is scarce in the near future, forcing a mother and daughter to fight for survival when two strangers arrive desperate for an oxygenated haven.
Our read: Breathe (2024) reads as a sombre, breathless, inventive action · sci-fi · mystery entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, extreme action / sci-fi, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- sombre
- kinetic
- extreme
- inventive
- twisty
- epic-stakes
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“You want a tight oxygen-crisis siege thriller with a mother-daughter bond.”
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