2004 · drama · german
Marseille
Directed by Angela Schanelec1h 31m2004
A young Berlin photographer participates in an apartment swap with a stranger in Marseille to briefly explore the French city.
Our read: Marseille (2004) reads as a sombre, slow-burn, inventive drama · german entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Sombre, slow-burn, gentle drama / german, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- sombre
- slow-burn
- bleak
- cold
- signature
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