2008 · adventure · family · fantasy
City of Ember
Directed by Gil Kenan1h 35m2008
For generations, the people of the City of Ember have flourished in an amazing world of glittering lights. But Ember's once powerful generator is failing and the great lamps that illuminate the city are starting to flicker. Now, two teenagers, in a race against time, must search Ember for clues that will unlock the ancient mystery of the city's existence, before the the lights go out forever.
Our read: City of Ember (2008) reads as a cosy, kinetic, inventive adventure · family · fantasy entry — gentle in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, kinetic, gentle adventure / family, inventive in texture. Redemptive, epic, tender.
- cosy
- brisk
- gentle
- redemptive
- tender
- epic-stakes
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