The Journey
- sombre
- intense
Sombre, steady, extreme drama / thriller, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →Firebrand Democratic Unionist Party leader Ian Paisley and Sinn Fein politician Martin McGuinness, two implacable enemies in Northern Ireland, are forced to take a short journey together in which they will take the biggest leap of faith and change the course of history.
Our read · The Journey (2017) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded drama · thriller · war entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
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