1992 · crime · drama
Swoon
Directed by Tom Kalin1h 33m1992
Teenagers Nathan Leopold Jr. and Richard Loeb share a dangerous sexual bond and an amoral outlook on life. They spend afternoons breaking into storefronts and engaging in petty crimes, until the calculating Nathan ups the ante by kidnapping, and murdering, a young boy.
Our read: Swoon (1992) reads as a sombre, measured, inventive crime · drama entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Sombre, measured, measured crime / drama, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- sombre
- measured
- intense
- inventive
- bleak
- cold
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