1962 · drama · political
Advise & Consent
Directed by Otto Preminger2h 19m1962
Proposed by the President of the United States to fill the post of Secretary of State, Robert Leffingwell appears before a Senate committee, chaired by the idealistic Senator Brig Anderson, which must decide whether he is the right person for the job.
Our read: Advise & Consent (1962) reads as a sombre, kinetic, grounded drama · political entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured drama / political, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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