2014 · drama
Court (2014)
Directed by Chaitanya Tamhane1h 56m2014
A sewerage worker's dead body is found inside a manhole in Mumbai. An ageing folk singer is tried in court on charges of abetment of suicide. He is accused of performing an inflammatory song which might have incited the worker to commit the act. As the trial unfolds, the personal lives of the lawyers and the judge involved in the case are observed outside the court.
Our read: Court (2014) (2014) reads as a sombre, slow-burn, grounded drama entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Sombre, slow-burn, measured drama, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- sombre
- slow-burn
- bleak
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