1979 · comedy · romance · music
A Perfect Couple
Directed by Robert Altman1h 50m1979
An uptight bachelor tries his luck with a computer dating service and gets matched up with his polar opposite.
Our read: A Perfect Couple (1979) reads as a warm, kinetic, inventive comedy · romance · music entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, gentle comedy / romance, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- warm
- brisk
- intimate
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