2013 · thriller · drama · survival
Penthouse North
Directed by Joseph Ruben1h 25m2013
After losing her sight while working as a photojournalist in Afghanistan, Sara Frost, now reclusive, lives quietly in a New York penthouse with her boyfriend, until a smooth but sadistic criminal looking for a hidden fortune enters her life.
Our read: Penthouse North (2013) reads as a sombre, kinetic, grounded thriller · drama · survival entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured thriller / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
- sombre
- brisk
- intense
- cold
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