1972 · crime · drama
The Godfather
Directed by Francis Ford Coppola2h 55m1972
Spanning the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family. When organized crime family patriarch, Vito Corleone barely survives an attempt on his life, his youngest son, Michael steps in to take care of the would-be killers, launching a campaign of bloody revenge.
Our read: The Godfather (1972) reads as a sombre, measured, grounded crime · drama entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Sombre, measured, extreme crime / drama, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- measured
- intense
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