2021 · drama · music
The Humans
Directed by Stephen Karam1h 46m2021
Erik Blake has gathered three generations of his Pennsylvania family to celebrate Thanksgiving at his daughter’s apartment in lower Manhattan. As darkness falls outside and eerie things start to go bump in the night, the group’s deepest fears are laid bare.
Our read: The Humans (2021) reads as a heavy, measured, inventive drama · music entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, measured, measured drama / music, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, measured.
- heavy
- measured
- intimate
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