2017 · drama · fantasy · horror
The Keeping Hours
Directed by Karen Moncrieff1h 31m2017
A supernatural love story that centers on two parents whose life together falls apart after their son dies. The man, now a successful lawyer, and the woman, now married and an author, get a chance at reconciliation ten years later.
Our read: The Keeping Hours (2017) reads as a sombre, measured, inventive drama · fantasy · horror entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, measured, measured drama / fantasy, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- sombre
- measured
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“You want a quiet supernatural drama of parents healing through their lost child's presence.”
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