2022 · thriller · mystery · folk
Hawa
Directed by Maïmouna Doucouré1h 44m2022
A teenage girl lives with her grandmother and worries she will be removed by social services. She sets off to get adopted by someone she admires more than anything, one of the most powerful women in the world.
Our read: Hawa (2022) reads as a sombre, kinetic, inventive thriller · mystery · folk entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, extreme thriller / mystery, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- brisk
- intense
- inventive
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