Phantom Islands

Feb 27, 2018

1h 26m

★ 3.7

Overview

Phantom Islands is an experimental film that exists at the boundary of documentary and fiction. It follows a couple adrift and disoriented in the stunning landscape of Ireland’s islands. Yet this deliberately melodramatic romance is constantly questioned by a provocative cinematic approach that ultimately results in a hypnotic and visceral inquiry into the very possibility of documentary objectivity.

Genres

Drama

Documentary

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Cast

Daniel Fawcett

Clara Pais

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