2014 · thriller · crime · spanish
Marshland
Directed by Alberto Rodríguez1h 44m2014
The Spanish Deep South, 1980. A series of brutal murders of adolescent girls in a remote and forgotten town bring together two disparate characters – both detectives in the homicide division – to investigate the cases.
Our read: Marshland (2014) reads as a heavy, steady, grounded thriller · crime · spanish entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, steady, extreme thriller / crime, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
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