2016 · drama · thriller
The Drowning
Directed by Bette Gordon1h 35m2016
A psychiatrist faces his past, present and future when he finds himself involved in the treatment of a young man recently released from prison for a murder committed when the boy was just 11 years old.
Our read: The Drowning (2016) reads as a sombre, measured, grounded drama · thriller entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Sombre, measured, measured drama / thriller, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- sombre
- measured
- bleak
- cold
- intimate
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