2021 · drama · crime
The Inner Cage
Directed by Leonardo Di Costanzo1h 57m2021
A prison drama where an old mobster and a prison guard must find a way to coexist so that imprisonment can become less so, and perhaps reveal the paradox that is behind the very concept of captivity.
Our read: The Inner Cage (2021) reads as a sombre, measured, grounded drama · crime entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, measured, measured drama / crime, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- sombre
- measured
- intimate
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