2005 · war · comedy · drama
C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America
Directed by Kevin Willmott1h 29m2005
Through the eyes of a British "documentary", this film takes a satirically humorous, and sometimes frightening, look at the history of an America where the South won the Civil War.
Our read: C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America (2005) reads as a sombre, kinetic, inventive war · comedy · drama entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured war / comedy, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, epic, cold.
- sombre
- brisk
- inventive
- bleak
- cold
- twisty
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