The Unknown Saint
- warm
- measured
- gentle
- inventive
Warm, measured, gentle comedy / drama, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →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.
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The shape of The Unknown Saint
What watching it is actually like.
“You want a dry Moroccan comedy about a thief whose loot becomes a shrine.”
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The reading.
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