2025 · adventure · mystery · drama
The Physician II
Directed by Philipp Stölzl2h 22m2025
1050 AD: Robert Cole returns to England to bring the medical light of the Orient to his countrymen. But he fails because of the intrigues of the established London doctors, who feel threatened by the new knowledge. And it is not only the human body that is full of seemingly impenetrable secrets, the soul also holds its own mysteries.
Our read: The Physician II (2025) reads as a sombre, kinetic, inventive adventure · mystery · drama entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured adventure / mystery, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- sombre
- brisk
- twisty
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