1962 · czech-new-wave · short · drama
The Ceiling
Directed by Frank Pierson1h 40m1962
A housewife and her teenage daughter, fleeing their boring lives, stop in a diner in the California desert. She runs up against the diner's owner, a gruff, beer-drinking artist whose life's work is the neon sculptures he collects and attaches to the ceiling.
Our read: The Ceiling (1962) reads as a sombre, steady, inventive czech-new-wave · short · drama entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Sombre, steady, measured czech-new-wave / short, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- sombre
- intimate
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