Magnetic Fields
- warm
- measured
- intimate
Warm, measured, gentle road-movie / romance, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →Alone in the middle of the forest, Solal, eleven years old, equipped with a magnetic field detector, is looking for his missing mother, convinced that she was abducted by aliens. His meeting with Lena, a runaway teenager intrigued by his behaviour, will disturb his quest...
Our read · Magnetic Fields (2021) reads as a warm, measured, grounded road-movie · romance · minimal entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
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The shape of Magnetic Fields
What watching it is actually like.
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The reading.
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