2009 · drama · mystery · thriller
Cracks
Directed by Jordan Scott1h 44m2009
Jealousy flares after the headmistress of an elite boarding school for girls becomes obsessed with a new student.
Our read: Cracks (2009) reads as a heavy, measured, grounded drama · mystery · thriller entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, measured, measured drama / mystery, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- heavy
- measured
- bleak
- cold
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