2010 · fantasy · adventure · action
The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec
Directed by Luc Besson1h 47m2010
An adventure set in the early part of the 20th century, focused on a popular novelist and her dealings with would-be suitors, the cops, monsters, and other distractions.
Our read: The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec (2010) reads as a sombre, breathless, surreal fantasy · adventure · action entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, extreme fantasy / adventure, surreal in texture. Redemptive, epic, measured.
- sombre
- kinetic
- intense
- inventive
- twisty
- epic-stakes
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