2024 · thriller · drama · history
Waves
Directed by Jiří Mádl2h 11m2024
At the end of the 1960s, when the air is filled with rock-and-roll and student rebellions are changing the world, the older of two brothers joins a prestigious newsroom of the public radio broadcaster. Not long after, he finds himself in the middle of a dangerous conflict between journalists and the secret service.
Our read: Waves (2024) reads as a sombre, kinetic, grounded thriller · drama · history entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured thriller / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- sombre
- brisk
- intense
- twisty
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