2008 · drama · biography · crime
Bronson
Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn1h 32m2008
A young man who was sentenced to 7 years in prison for robbing a post office ends up spending 30 years in solitary confinement. During this time, his own personality is supplanted by his alter ego, Charles Bronson.
Our read: Bronson (2008) reads as a sombre, kinetic, inventive drama · biography · crime entry — extreme in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Sombre, kinetic, extreme drama / biography, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- sombre
- brisk
- extreme
- inventive
- bleak
- cold
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