1985 · comedy · drama
After Hours
Directed by Martin Scorsese1h 37m1985
Desperate to escape his mind-numbing routine, uptown Manhattan office worker Paul Hackett ventures downtown for a hookup with a mystery woman.
Our read: After Hours (1985) reads as a sombre, kinetic, inventive comedy · drama entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Sombre, kinetic, measured comedy / drama, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- sombre
- brisk
- inventive
- bleak
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