2009 · drama · thriller
Rapt
Directed by Lucas Belvaux2h 5m2009
A rich industrialist is brutally kidnapped. While he physically and mentally degenerates in imprisonment, the kidnappers, police and the board of the company of which he is director negotiate about the ransom of 50 million euro.
Our read: Rapt (2009) reads as a heavy, steady, grounded drama · thriller entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, steady, measured drama / thriller, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- intense
- bleak
- cold
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