Tempestad
- heavy
- slow-burn
- intense
Heavy, slow-burn, measured documentary, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →A woman is recruited to a prison controlled by organized crime while another woman searches for her missing daughter. Through images that submerges us in a journey from north to south Mexico, both testimonies collide and take us to the center of a storm: a country where violence has taken control of our lives, our desires and our dreams.
Our read · Tempestad (2016) reads as a heavy, slow-burn, grounded documentary entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
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The shape of Tempestad
What watching it is actually like.
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The reading.
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