2019 · comedy · thriller · music
Guava Island
Directed by Hiro Murai56m2019
Deni Maroon, a musician and dock worker is determined to pull off a music festival against the interests of the local factory owner.
Our read: Guava Island (2019) reads as a warm, kinetic, inventive comedy · thriller · music entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, measured comedy / thriller, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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