2017 · drama · atmospheric · industrial
Winter Brothers
Directed by Hlynur Pálmason1h 33m2017
A brother odyssey set in a workers' environment during a cold winter. We follow two brothers - their routines, habits and rituals - and a violent feud that erupts between them and another family.
Our read: Winter Brothers (2017) reads as a heavy, measured, inventive drama · atmospheric · industrial entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Heavy, measured, measured drama / atmospheric, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- heavy
- measured
- intense
- inventive
- bleak
- cold
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