1992 · drama · memory
Crystal Nights
Directed by Tonia Marketaki2h 18m1992
In Occupied Athens, a German woman, the wife of a Greek officer, falls in love with a teenage Jewish ice vendor. Love becomes fate: the woman dies and is reborn, living two lives in a world that is rapidly changing.
Our read: Crystal Nights (1992) reads as a sombre, measured, inventive drama · memory entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, measured, measured drama / memory, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- sombre
- measured
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