2007 · sci-fi · thriller · comedy
Southland Tales
Directed by Richard Kelly2h 25m2007
Set in the futuristic landscape of Los Angeles on July 4, 2008, as it stands on the brink of social, economic and environmental disaster. Boxer Santaros is an action star who's stricken with amnesia. His life intertwines with Krysta Now, an adult film star developing her own reality television project, and Ronald Taverner, a Hermosa Beach police officer who holds the key to a vast conspiracy.
Our read: Southland Tales (2007) reads as a sombre, steady, surreal sci-fi · thriller · comedy entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Sombre, steady, measured sci-fi / thriller, surreal in texture. Nihilistic, epic, cold.
- sombre
- surreal
- bleak
- cold
- twisty
- signature
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