2019 · comedy · drama · absurd
The Unknown Saint
Directed by Alaa Eddine Aljem1h 41m2019
Following a stint behind bars, a thief returns to where he buried his loot, only to find that his hiding spot is now a shrine to an unknown saint.
Our read: The Unknown Saint (2019) reads as a warm, measured, inventive comedy · drama · absurd entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, measured, gentle comedy / drama, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- warm
- measured
- gentle
- inventive
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