2020 · drama · thriller
Choked
Directed by Anurag Kashyap1h 54m2020
A bank employee weighed down by her jobless husband's debts - and her own broken dreams - finds a secret source of seemingly unlimited cash in her home.
Our read: Choked (2020) reads as a sombre, kinetic, grounded drama · thriller entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured drama / thriller, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- brisk
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