2011 · documentary · drama · supernatural
Life in a Day
Directed by Kevin Macdonald, Zillah Bowes, Phil Loarie, Kjell Bismeyer, Jon Haas1h 35m2011
A documentary shot by filmmakers all over the world that serves as a time capsule to show future generations what it was like to be alive on the 24th of July, 2010.
Our read: Life in a Day (2011) reads as a warm, steady, grounded documentary · drama · supernatural entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Warm, steady, gentle documentary / drama, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, tender.
- warm
- gentle
- redemptive
- tender
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