2008 · crime · drama
Cass
Directed by Jon S. Baird1h 48m2008
The incredible true story of how an orphaned Jamaican baby, adopted by an elderly white couple and brought up in an all white area of London, became one of the most feared and respected men in Britain.
Our read: Cass (2008) reads as a sombre, kinetic, grounded crime · drama entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured crime / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, cold.
- sombre
- brisk
- intense
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