The Future (2011)
- sombre
- measured
- inventive
- signature
- intimate
Sombre, measured, measured drama / fantasy, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →When a couple decides to adopt a stray cat their perspective on life changes radically, literally altering the course of time and space and testing their faith in each other and themselves.
Our read · The Future (2011) (2011) reads as a sombre, measured, inventive drama · fantasy entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
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The shape of The Future
What watching it is actually like.
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The reading.
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