September Says
- sombre
- measured
- inventive
- intimate
Sombre, measured, measured drama, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →Sisters September and July share an intense bond, speaking in a secret language and keeping the outside world at a distance. After September is suspended from school, their mother brings them to a remote house on the Irish coast—where July begins to resist her sister’s increasingly sadistic control.
Our read · September Says (2024) reads as a sombre, measured, inventive drama entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
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