2006 · drama · horror · mystery
Spectre
Directed by Mateo Gil1h 21m2006
After the sudden death of his wife, Tomás, a successful elderly writer who has been out of Spain during the last forty years, unexpectedly receives an old tarot card which seems to have for him a disturbing meaning, so he decides to return to the small village where he grew up.
Our read: Spectre (2006) reads as a sombre, measured, inventive drama · horror · mystery entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Sombre, measured, measured drama / horror, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- sombre
- measured
- cold
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