2022 · comedy · horror · drama
The Year of the Shark
Directed by Ludovic Boukherma, Zoran Boukherma1h 27m2022
A small coastal town in the south-west of France is on high alert after a surfer disappeared. Soon the incredible truth is revealed: a shark is prowling in the harbor.
Our read: The Year of the Shark (2022) reads as a warm, breathless, inventive comedy · horror · drama entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, breathless, measured comedy / horror, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- warm
- kinetic
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