Image
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Sombre, breathless, measured drama / crime, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →Eva Hendrickx is an ambitious young journalist working on the team of television legend Herman Verbeeck. She's determined to bring a story about the riots in the suburbs of Brussels. While the city spins further away in a spiral of violence, Eva meets Lahbib, a Moroccan with a heavy past. He escorts her into his complex and hard world. Meanwhile, Herman Verbeeck sees a way to exploit Eva's story in the ever-competitive mediagame...
Our read · Image (2014) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded drama · crime · media entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
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The shape of Image
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The reading.
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