2023 · drama · biography · sport
Nyad (2023)
Directed by Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin2h 0m2023
Athlete Diana Nyad sets out at 60 to achieve a nearly impossible lifelong dream: to swim from Cuba to Florida across more than 100 miles of open ocean.
Our read: Nyad (2023) (2023) reads as a neutral, kinetic, grounded drama · biography · sport entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, kinetic, measured drama / biography, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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- intense
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