The Square Circle
- sombre
- measured
- intense
Sombre, measured, measured drama / lgbt, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →An abducted and sexually abused girl has her traditional views towards sexuality changed after finding refuge and kindness with a trans woman.
Our read · The Square Circle (1996) reads as a sombre, measured, grounded drama · lgbt entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
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The shape of The Square Circle
What watching it is actually like.
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The reading.
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Closeness in the twelve-axis space — how the film actually reads, not “people also liked.”
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