Lucky Day
- sombre
- kinetic
- intense
- cold
Sombre, breathless, extreme action / crime, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
How every film is hand-scored →Red, a safe cracker who has just been released from prison, is trying to hold his family together as his past catches up with him in the form of Luc, a psychopathic contract killer who's seeking revenge for the death of his brother.
Our read · Lucky Day (2019) reads as a sombre, breathless, inventive action · crime · thriller entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
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The shape of Lucky Day
What watching it is actually like.
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The reading.
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