‘Closure’ Review: In This Sundance Stunner, a Missing Person Mystery Becomes a Devastating Study of Love and Loss

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• Yet as it unfolds it cleverly becomes a drama that tries to answer the bigger life questions about family relationships and love.
• This might sound lofty, but it is actually what this potent humanist film accomplishes.
• With a standout central protagonist and an urgent quest that is every parent’s nightmare, the film plays like a thriller but manages to deliver honest and piercing emotions at almost every sequence along the way.
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• A man throws a dummy off the bridge into the river, then the camera moves along the heavy currents of the brown water as the same man tries to find the body.