1991 · drama · literary · romance
Voyager
Directed by Volker Schlöndorff1h 57m1991
April 1957: Rational engineer Faber's plane crashes in Mexico, where he learns that he became a father in 1938. He takes a ship from NYC to France and meets cute, young Sabeth. Is it fate?
Our read: Voyager (1991) reads as a sombre, measured, grounded drama · literary · romance entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Sombre, measured, measured drama / literary, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- measured
- intense
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