2016 · fantasy · drama
Vanishing Time: A Boy Who Returned
Directed by Um Tae-hwa2h 9m2016
Days after her friends disappear during a trip to a mysterious cave, a girl is approached by a grown man claiming to be one of her missing pals.
Our read: Vanishing Time: A Boy Who Returned (2016) reads as a sombre, steady, inventive fantasy · drama entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, steady, measured fantasy / drama, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- inventive
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