2010 · comedy · crime · drama
A Somewhat Gentle Man
Directed by Hans Petter Moland1h 43m2010
After serving a 12-year sentence for killing the man that slept with his wife, a man ponders whether he should try and reconcile with his family, or take revenge on those who turned him in.
Our read: A Somewhat Gentle Man (2010) reads as a neutral, kinetic, grounded comedy · crime · drama entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, kinetic, measured comedy / crime, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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