Ida Red
- sombre
- kinetic
- intense
- cold
Sombre, breathless, measured crime / thriller, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
How every film is hand-scored →Ida Red may not survive her 20-year prison sentence for armed robbery. She turns to her son, Wyatt, for one last job and a chance to regain her freedom.
Our read · Ida Red (2021) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded crime · thriller · drama entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
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The shape of Ida Red
What watching it is actually like.
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The reading.
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