2009 · crime · thriller · dark
Kaminey
Directed by Vishal Bhardwaj2h 15m2009
Two brothers, as different as chalk and cheese, find their lives intertwined when one puts himself in danger via a `get rich quick' scheme and the other finds there is a price on his head.
Our read: Kaminey (2009) reads as a sombre, breathless, inventive crime · thriller · dark entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Sombre, breathless, extreme crime / thriller, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- kinetic
- extreme
- twisty
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