Steve + Sky
- sombre
- brisk
Sombre, kinetic, measured drama / romance, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →A story about two struggling people who are trying to find their own place in the world. He is a small-time crook recently released from prison and she is a prostitute craving some love and affection. They find each other in an obscure part of Gent. Jean-Claude is responsible for their meeting ; he is also an ex-inmate who has just traded the low-life crime scene for life as a pimp. Will their love survive?
Our read · Steve + Sky (2004) reads as a sombre, kinetic, inventive drama · romance · debut entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
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