2010 · comedy · drama · political
Barney's Version
Directed by Richard J. Lewis2h 14m2010
The picaresque and touching story of the politically incorrect, fully lived life of the impulsive, irascible and fearlessly blunt Barney Panofsky.
Our read: Barney's Version (2010) reads as a neutral, steady, grounded comedy · drama · political entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, steady, measured comedy / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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