2009 · crime · thriller · filipino
Kinatay
Directed by Brillante Ma Mendoza1h 45m2009
A young man tries to make some money so he can marry his girlfriend. He takes a job for $2,000 and then soon realizes that this job involves killing a woman.
Our read: Kinatay (2009) reads as a heavy, measured, inventive crime · thriller · filipino entry — extreme in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Heavy, measured, extreme crime / thriller, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- heavy
- measured
- extreme
- bleak
- cold
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