2020 · thriller · drama
The Occupant
Directed by David Pastor, Àlex Pastor1h 43m2020
An unemployed executive is forced to sell his apartment. When he discovers that he still has the keys, he becomes obsessed with the family that now lives there and decides to recover the life he has lost, at any price.
Our read: The Occupant (2020) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded thriller · drama entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Sombre, steady, measured thriller / drama, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- sombre
- intense
- bleak
- cold
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