2019 · crime · comedy · survival
Stockholm
Directed by Robert Budreau1h 32m2019
Based on the extraordinary true story of the European city’s 1973 bank heist and hostage crisis that was documented in the 1974 New Yorker article “The Bank Drama” by Daniel Lang. The events grasped the world’s attention when the hostages bonded with their captors and turned against the authorities, giving rise to the psychological phenomenon known as “Stockholm Syndrome.”
Our read: Stockholm (2019) reads as a neutral, kinetic, grounded crime · comedy · survival entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, kinetic, measured crime / comedy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- brisk
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