2013 · comedy · drama · music
August: Osage County
Directed by John Wells2h 1m2013
An intense look at the lives of the strong-willed daughters of the Weston family, whose paths have diverged until a family crisis brings them back to the Midwest house they grew up in, and to the dysfunctional mother who raised them.
Our read: August: Osage County (2013) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded comedy · drama · music entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Sombre, steady, measured comedy / drama, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- sombre
- cold
- intimate
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