1919 · drama · silent · romance
Broken Blossoms
Directed by D.W. Griffith1h 29m1919
The love story of an abused English girl and a Chinese Buddhist in a time when London was a brutal and harsh place to live.
Our read: Broken Blossoms (1919) reads as a heavy, measured, grounded drama · silent · romance entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Heavy, measured, measured drama / silent, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, measured.
- heavy
- measured
- intense
- bleak
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