2008 · thriller · crime · drama
Zift
Directed by Javor Gardev1h 32m2008
Moth is freed on parole after spending time in prison on a wrongful conviction of murder. Jailed shortly before the Bulgarian communist coup of 1944, he now finds himself in a new and alien world— the totalitarian Sofia of the 60s. His first night of freedom draws the map of a diabolical city full of decaying neighborhoods, gloomy streets, and a bizarre parade of characters.
Our read: Zift (2008) reads as a heavy, kinetic, inventive thriller · crime · drama entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, kinetic, measured thriller / crime, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- heavy
- brisk
- intense
- inventive
- bleak
- cold
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