2008 · thriller · mystery · heist
Deception
Directed by Marcel Langenegger1h 47m2008
As a corporate auditor who works in a number of different offices, Jonathan McQuarry wanders without an anchor among New York's power brokers. A chance meeting with charismatic lawyer Wyatt Bose leads to Jonathan's introduction to The List, an underground sex club. Jonathan begins an affair with a woman known only as S, who introduces Jonathan to a world of treachery and murder.
Our read: Deception (2008) reads as a sombre, kinetic, grounded thriller · mystery · heist entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured thriller / mystery, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- sombre
- brisk
- bleak
- cold
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