2014 · drama · historical · epic
The Cut
Directed by Fatih Akin2h 18m2014
In 1915 a man survives the Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire, but loses his family, speech and faith. One night he learns that his twin daughters may be alive, and goes on a quest to find them.
Our read: The Cut (2014) reads as a heavy, kinetic, grounded drama · historical · epic entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Heavy, kinetic, extreme drama / historical, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- heavy
- brisk
- intense
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