2020 · drama · thriller · coming-of-age
Free Country
Directed by Christian Alvart2h 10m2020
Former East Germany, 1992. Patrick Stein and Markus Bach, two very different police officers, are commissioned to investigate the disappearance of two female teenagers in a remote area of the country. Did they run away from home or did something more terrible happen to them?
Our read: Free Country (2020) reads as a heavy, steady, grounded drama · thriller · coming-of-age entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, steady, measured drama / thriller, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- intense
- cold
- twisty
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