2023 · crime · drama · coming-of-age
Sun and Concrete
Directed by David Wnendt1h 59m2023
The four friends Lukas, Julius, Gino and Sanchez are trying to survive the everyday life in Neukölln, Berlin between drugs, gangs, rap, violence and boredom. Until they are one day making a serious decision with serious consequences because of a dead certain plan.
Our read: Sun and Concrete (2023) reads as a sombre, kinetic, grounded crime · drama · coming-of-age entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured crime / drama, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, measured.
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