Three Paths to the Lake
- heavy
- slow-burn
- bleak
- intimate
Heavy, slow-burn, measured drama / tv, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
How every film is hand-scored →Elisabeth, a fifty year old woman, visits her old father in the outskirts of Klagenfurt. There, she reflects about her childhood and her romantic life.
Our read · Three Paths to the Lake (1976) reads as a heavy, slow-burn, grounded drama · tv · bachmann entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
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