2013 · dark-comedy · crime · drama
Filth
Directed by Jon S. Baird1h 37m2013
A bigoted junkie cop suffering from borderline personality disorder and drug addiction manipulates and hallucinates his way in a bid to secure promotion.
Our read: Filth (2013) reads as a heavy, breathless, inventive dark-comedy · crime · drama entry — extreme in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, breathless, extreme dark-comedy / crime, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- heavy
- kinetic
- extreme
- inventive
- bleak
- cold
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“You want McAvoy's unrestrained corrupt-cop spiral in pitch-black Edinburgh satire.”
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