1973 · experimental · drama · avant-garde
Willow Springs
Directed by Werner Schroeter1h 18m1973
Living together in an isolated house, three women go to murderous lengths to keep strangers out of their private retreat.
Our read: Willow Springs (1973) reads as a sombre, slow-burn, surreal experimental · drama · avant-garde entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Sombre, slow-burn, measured experimental / drama, surreal in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- sombre
- slow-burn
- intense
- surreal
- bleak
- signature
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