The Employment
- sombre
- gentle
- surreal
- bleak
- cold
- intimate
Sombre, steady, gentle animation / comedy, surreal in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
How every film is hand-scored →A man prepares and goes to work in a bizarre world, where the meaning of human workforce is taken to another level.
Our read · The Employment (2008) reads as a sombre, steady, surreal animation · comedy · drama entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
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The shape of The Employment
What watching it is actually like.
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The reading.
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