Taklub
- heavy
- measured
- intense
Heavy, measured, extreme drama / disaster, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →The story of the rebuilding of their lives by the survivors of the disaster caused by Typhoon Yolanda in the Philippines, particularly focusing on the struggles of a mother who lost their children.
Our read · Taklub (2015) reads as a heavy, measured, grounded drama · disaster · survivors entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
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The shape of Taklub
What watching it is actually like.
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The reading.
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