God's Pocket
- sombre
- measured
- bleak
- cold
- intimate
Sombre, measured, measured drama, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
How every film is hand-scored →A boozy lowlife tries to bury the truth about his crazy stepson's suspicious death, but a nosy newspaper columnist and the young man's mother complicate matters.
Our read · God's Pocket (2014) reads as a sombre, measured, grounded drama entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
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The shape of God's Pocket
What watching it is actually like.
“You want grubby Philadelphia noir played as pitch-black tragicomedy.”
Skip it tonight — You need likable characters; almost everyone here is compromised or cruel.
The reading.
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