2013 · drama · thriller · literary
The Dinner
Directed by Menno Meyjes1h 28m2013
Two brothers and their wives have dinner in a fancy restaurant to discuss their teenage children's misdeeds. An excoriating assessment of Europe’s contemporary social ills.
Our read: The Dinner (2013) reads as a sombre, kinetic, grounded drama · thriller · literary entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured drama / thriller, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- sombre
- brisk
- intense
- bleak
- cold
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