2020 · drama
What We Wanted
Directed by Ulrike Kofler1h 34m2020
Alice and Niklas are a young couple who's biggest wish is to have a child of their own. After several failed attempts they decide to go on a holiday in Sardinia to clear their minds. There they meet a family from Austria that seems to have everything they ever wished for. But appearances can be deceiving...
Our read: What We Wanted (2020) reads as a sombre, measured, grounded drama entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, measured, gentle drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, cold.
- sombre
- measured
- gentle
- intimate
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