2012 · comedy
A Perfect Family
Directed by Paolo Genovese2h 0m2012
Leone is a rich and powerful man whose loneliness drives him to hire a cast of actors to play the family he never had. On Christmas Eve, reality and make-believe start to get blurred.
Our read: A Perfect Family (2012) reads as a warm, steady, grounded comedy entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, steady, gentle comedy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- warm
- gentle
- intimate
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