2020 · drama · time-loop
Two Distant Strangers
Directed by Martin Desmond Roe, Travon Free32m2020
A man trying to get home to his dog becomes stuck in a time loop that forces him to relive a deadly run-in with a cop.
Our read: Two Distant Strangers (2020) reads as a heavy, breathless, inventive drama · time-loop entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Heavy, breathless, extreme drama / time-loop, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- brisk
- intense
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