2012 · drama · isolation · trauma
Watchtower
Directed by Pelin Esmer1h 40m2012
Haunted by his dark past, a man takes a job as a fire warden in a remote tower in the wilderness, and is inexorably drawn towards a young woman with a terrible secret of her own.
Our read: Watchtower (2012) reads as a heavy, measured, grounded drama · isolation · trauma entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, measured, measured drama / isolation, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, measured.
- heavy
- measured
- intense
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