2000 · comedy · thriller · black-comedy
Common Wealth
Directed by Álex de la Iglesia1h 49m2000
After finding an enormous amount of money hidden in a dead man's apartment, real estate agent Julia must face the wrath of the very peculiar inhabitants of the apartment building, who will stop at nothing to get their hands on the money.
Our read: Common Wealth (2000) reads as a sombre, breathless, inventive comedy · thriller · black-comedy entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, measured comedy / thriller, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- sombre
- kinetic
- intense
- inventive
- cold
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