1981 · thriller · crime
Ms .45
Directed by Abel Ferrara1h 21m1981
After being attacked and raped twice in one day, a timid, mute seamstress becomes a violent agent of revenge for wronged women.
Our read: Ms .45 (1981) reads as a heavy, steady, grounded thriller · crime entry — extreme in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Heavy, steady, extreme thriller / crime, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- heavy
- extreme
- bleak
- cold
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