2007 · thriller · drama
Live!
Directed by Bill Guttentag1h 36m2007
A mockumentary following an ambitious TV network executive trying to produce a controversial reality show where contestants play Russian Roulette.
Our read: Live! (2007) reads as a sombre, kinetic, inventive thriller · drama entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured thriller / drama, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- sombre
- brisk
- intense
- inventive
- bleak
- cold
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