2019 · drama · mystery · romance
Earthquake Bird
Directed by Wash Westmoreland1h 47m2019
Tokyo, Japan, 1989. Lucy Fly, a foreigner who works as a translator, begins a passionate relationship with Teiji, a mysterious man obsessed with photography.
Our read: Earthquake Bird (2019) reads as a sombre, measured, inventive drama · mystery · romance entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Sombre, measured, measured drama / mystery, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- sombre
- measured
- cold
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