2016 · comedy
A Bun in the Oven
Directed by Nadège Loiseau1h 40m2016
There is one thing that Nicole, who is soon turning fifty, would have loved to be spared, is to learn that the symptoms that have been ruining her life for some time are not those of a latent menopause, but those of a real pregnancy! What a drag…
Our read: A Bun in the Oven (2016) reads as a warm, kinetic, grounded comedy entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, gentle comedy, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, measured.
- warm
- brisk
- gentle
- intimate
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