2010 · drama · arthouse · supernatural
Year Without a Summer
Directed by Tan Chui Mui1h 27m2010
In a remote Malaysian fishing village, two boyhood friends reunite and take a night fishing trip to an uninhabited island. Through their journey and a series of flashbacks, the mysteries of their lives are slowly illuminated in a film hypnotic, tranquil, chimerical and steeped in the deep rhythms of the sea.
Our read: Year Without a Summer (2010) reads as a sombre, slow-burn, inventive drama · arthouse · supernatural entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Sombre, slow-burn, measured drama / arthouse, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- sombre
- slow-burn
- inventive
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