1994 · drama · crime · romance
Amateur
Directed by Hal Hartley1h 45m1994
A man wakes up in an alley, bleeding and with no memory of who he is. He stumbles into a coffee shop and is befriended by a charitable ex-nun who is failing in her attempts to write marketable pornography.
Our read: Amateur (1994) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded drama · crime · romance entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Sombre, steady, measured drama / crime, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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