2018 · drama · thriller
Close Enemies
Directed by David Oelhoffen1h 51m2018
Driss and Manuel both grew up on the same council estate. An estate where the sense of belonging to your patch is much stronger than the sense of belonging to a country, a nation or a culture... Manuel has assimilated this belonging, and he has even benefited from it and built his life on it. Driss, meanwhile, has shunned it. They will both have to face up to the consequences of their decisions – because they will each have a price to pay…
Our read: Close Enemies (2018) reads as a heavy, steady, grounded drama · thriller entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, steady, measured drama / thriller, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- heavy
- intense
- cold
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