2018 · drama · thriller · romance
Submergence
Directed by Wim Wenders1h 52m2018
While James More is held captive by terrorists in Somalia, thousands of miles away on the Greenland Sea, his lover Danny Flinders prepares to dive herself in a submersible into the deep bottom of the ocean, tormented by the memories of their brief encounter in France and her inability to know his whereabouts.
Our read: Submergence (2018) reads as a sombre, measured, grounded drama · thriller · romance entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, measured, measured drama / thriller, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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