2003 · thriller · comedy · drama
The Bottom of the Sea
Directed by Damián Szifron1h 32m2003
An architecture student is obsessed by his girlfriend. When she is invited to go alone to a party sponsored by her company, he becomes paranoid. He arrives at their place unexpectedly and finds a man hidden under their bed. He follows the man trying to find his name and occupation, along a night full of incidents and misunderstandings.
Our read: The Bottom of the Sea (2003) reads as a neutral, kinetic, grounded thriller · comedy · drama entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, kinetic, measured thriller / comedy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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- intimate
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