2021 · horror · mystery · supernatural
Separation
Directed by William Brent Bell1h 47m2021
A young girl finds solace in her artist father and the ghost of her dead mother.
Our read: Separation (2021) reads as a heavy, measured, inventive horror · mystery · supernatural entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, measured, measured horror / mystery, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- heavy
- measured
- intense
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