2024 · drama · fantasy · literary
The Master and Margarita
Directed by Michael Lockshin2h 37m2024
A writer in 1930s Moscow has his work banned and is expelled from the official union, leaving him without income. He then writes a novel about a mysterious dark visitor and gradually starts confusing his real life with the story.
Our read: The Master and Margarita (2024) reads as a sombre, kinetic, surreal drama · fantasy · literary entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured drama / fantasy, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- brisk
- intense
- surreal
- twisty
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