2012 · drama · romance · war
Twice Born
Directed by Sergio Castellitto2h 7m2012
Full-throttle melodrama about an ill-starred romance set against the backdrop of the siege of Sarajevo. A mother brings her teenage son to Sarajevo, where his father died in the Bosnian conflict years ago.
Our read: Twice Born (2012) reads as a heavy, steady, grounded drama · romance · war entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, steady, extreme drama / romance, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, measured.
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