1994 · drama · crime · fantasy
Heavenly Creatures
Directed by Peter Jackson1h 49m1994
Precocious teenager Juliet moves to New Zealand with her family and soon befriends the quiet, brooding Pauline through their shared love of fantasy and literature. This friendship gradually develops into an intense and obsessive bond.
Our read: Heavenly Creatures (1994) reads as a heavy, steady, inventive drama · crime · fantasy entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Heavy, steady, measured drama / crime, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, measured.
- heavy
- intense
- inventive
- bleak
- signature
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