2005 · comedy · drama
Dark Horse
Directed by Dagur Kári1h 40m2005
A young man spurs romance and helps his friend and himself go through the struggles of their ordinary life in Denmark.
Our read: Dark Horse (2005) reads as a warm, measured, inventive comedy · drama entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, measured, gentle comedy / drama, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- measured
- gentle
- intimate
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