2016 · comedy · drama
A Hologram for the King
Directed by Tom Tykwer1h 38m2016
Alan Clay, a struggling American businessman, travels to Saudi Arabia to sell a new technology to the King, only to be challenged by endless Middle Eastern bureaucracy, a perpetually absent monarch, and a suspicious growth on his back.
Our read: A Hologram for the King (2016) reads as a warm, kinetic, grounded comedy · drama entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, gentle comedy / drama, grounded in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, tender.
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- gentle
- tender
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