2022 · drama · romance · thriller
Stars at Noon
Directed by Claire Denis2h 18m2022
In present-day Nicaragua, a headstrong American journalist and a mysterious English businessman strike up a romance as they become embroiled in a dangerous labyrinth of lies and conspiracies and are forced to try and escape the country.
Our read: Stars at Noon (2022) reads as a sombre, measured, grounded drama · romance · thriller entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Sombre, measured, measured drama / romance, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, measured.
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