2019 · comedy
Back to School
Directed by Rémy Four, Julien War1h 23m2019
Two adults go to their middle school reunion in order to show off their success to old bullies teenage crushes.
Our read: Back to School (2019) reads as a warm, kinetic, grounded comedy entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, gentle comedy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- warm
- brisk
- gentle
- intimate
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