Port of Call
- heavy
- extreme
- bleak
Heavy, steady, extreme crime / drama, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
How every film is hand-scored →Based on a real murder case where a dismembered corpse of a murdered 16-year-old prostitute girl was found in Hong Kong in 2008.
Our read · Port of Call (2015) reads as a heavy, steady, grounded crime · drama · thriller entry — extreme in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
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The shape of Port of Call
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