2007 · action · thriller · crime
Chrysalis
Directed by Julien Leclercq1h 34m2007
Paris 2020, a high tech surgeon and her daughter are involved in a horrific car accident, the surgeon saves her daughter's life at the cost of manipulating her dreams and memories.
Our read: Chrysalis (2007) reads as a heavy, breathless, inventive action · thriller · crime entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, breathless, measured action / thriller, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- kinetic
- intense
- cold
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