A classic case of “starts out as one thing, becomes another”, but whilst I was initially disappointed when I realised the film Encounter started as wouldn’t continue that way, I was gradually bowled over by the depths of the other thing it strove for. Riz Ahmed is typically class
and I was a big fan of the two child stars, old head on young shoulders Lucian-River Chauhan and energetic youngster Aditya Geddada. There was maybe a needledrop too many for my liking, especially given the cosmically tinted, haunting incidental music, and I still would like to
see the film that would’ve been if the premise was stuck too in a more literal manner, but Michael Pearce’s follow up to the incredible Beast shows that the filmmaker can change it up and tackle bigger studio fare without losing the intensity and intimacy that grounds prior work.
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