Walk on Water
- sombre
- intense
Sombre, steady, measured drama / thriller, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →Eyal, an Israeli Mossad agent, is given the mission to track down and kill the very old Alfred Himmelman, an ex-Nazi officer, who might still be alive. Pretending to be a tourist guide, he befriends his grandson Axel, in Israel to visit his sister Pia. The two men set out on a tour of the country, during which Axel challenges Eyal's values.
Our read · Walk on Water (2004) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded drama · thriller entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
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The shape of Walk on Water
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