2013 · drama · war
Tangerines (Estonia)
Directed by Zaza Urushadze1h 27m2013
War in Abkhazia, 1992. An Estonian man Ivo has stayed behind to harvest his crops of tangerines. In a bloody conflict at his door, a wounded man is left behind, and Ivo is forced to take him in.
Our read: Tangerines (Estonia) (2013) reads as a sombre, measured, grounded drama · war entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, measured, measured drama / war, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- measured
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