2017 · drama · social · youth
Disappearance
Directed by Boudewijn Koole1h 31m2017
Set in the remote winter landscape of Norway, Roos visits her mother there yearly, but this time it’s different: she brings bad news. However, old pain and numerous reproaches keep Roos from sharing anything with her mother. Aided by her half-brother and her old flame, the two women reconcile and Roos is able to make her next and inescapable step.
Our read: Disappearance (2017) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded drama · social · youth entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Sombre, steady, measured drama / social, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, measured.
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