1999 · new-argentine · labor · black-white
Crane World
Directed by Pablo Trapero1h 30m1999
The portrait of a man and his attempts to make things up with life after losing his job.
Our read: Crane World (1999) reads as a sombre, measured, grounded new-argentine · labor · black-white entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, measured, measured new-argentine / labor, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- sombre
- measured
- intimate
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