1980 · drama · crime · romance
Atlantic City
Directed by Louis Malle1h 44m1980
In a corrupt city, a small-time gangster and the estranged wife of a pot dealer find themselves thrown together in an escapade of love, money, drugs and danger.
Our read: Atlantic City (1980) reads as a neutral, measured, grounded drama · crime · romance entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, measured, measured drama / crime, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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“You want Louis Malle's melancholy romance where faded glamour meets sudden danger.”
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