2003 · experimental · meditative · nature
Five
Directed by Silvia Kovatchev2003
Alice discovers a lump in her breast. Martin, her husband, is trying to conceal the results from a study on the pill and breast cancer, which writes off years of dedicated research that he's done on synthetic hormones. Paul, their oldest son, wants to start his own online business, StripBoxing.com. Jerrett, their younger son, helps Paul with the programming of the site. Sarah, their teenage daughter, tries to be accepted by her peers, which brings a fight with her mother that makes Sarah run away from home. Enter Faith, detached, luminous, irresistible. She changes their lives forever.
Our read: Five (2003) reads as a warm, slow-burn, surreal experimental · meditative · nature entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Warm, slow-burn, gentle experimental / meditative, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- warm
- slow-burn
- gentle
- inventive
- signature
- intimate
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