2009 · comedy · crime · thriller
The Bone Man
Directed by Wolfgang Murnberger1h 57m2009
Set in a sleepy Austrian mountain village, ex-detective Simon Brenner has grown weary of his job repossessing cars and embarks on an extended getaway to the countryside. But before long he becomes embroiled in the convoluted world of the locals of a supposedly quiet town.
Our read: The Bone Man (2009) reads as a sombre, kinetic, inventive comedy · crime · thriller entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured comedy / crime, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
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