2016 · action · thriller · political
Scribe
Directed by Thomas Kruithof1h 33m2016
Two years after a burn-out, Duval is still unemployed. Contacted by an enigmatic businessman, he is offered a simple and well-paid job: transcribing telephone tapping. Duval accepts financially without questioning the purpose of the organization that employs him. Precipitated at the heart of a political plot, he must face the brutal mechanics of the underground world of the secret services.
Our read: Scribe (2016) reads as a sombre, kinetic, grounded action · thriller · political entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured action / thriller, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- sombre
- brisk
- cold
- twisty
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