2013 · thriller · crime · mystery
Trance
Directed by Danny Boyle1h 41m2013
A violent gang enlists the help of a hypnotherapist in an attempt to locate a painting which somehow vanished in the middle of a heist.
Our read: Trance (2013) reads as a sombre, breathless, inventive thriller · crime · mystery entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, extreme thriller / crime, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
- sombre
- kinetic
- intense
- inventive
- cold
- twisty
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