2017 · drama · history · music
Django
Directed by Étienne Comar1h 57m2017
The story of Django Reinhardt, famous guitarist and composer, and his flight from German-occupied Paris in 1943.
Our read: Django (2017) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded drama · history · music entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, steady, measured drama / history, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
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