Age of Consent
- warm
- intimate
Warm, steady, gentle drama / romance, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →An elderly artist thinks he has become too stale and is past his prime. His friend (and agent) persuades him to go to an offshore island to try once more. On the island he re-discovers his muse in the form of a young girl.
Our read · Age of Consent (1969) reads as a warm, steady, grounded drama · romance entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
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The shape of Age of Consent
What watching it is actually like.
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The reading.
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