2020 · drama · thriller · political
The Translator
Directed by Anas Khalaf, Rana Kazkaz1h 45m2020
A Syrian exile living in Australia returns when his brother is taken into custody by the Assad regime in 2011.
Our read: The Translator (2020) reads as a sombre, kinetic, grounded drama · thriller · political entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, extreme drama / thriller, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- brisk
- intense
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