2017 · drama · comedy
Beatriz at Dinner
Directed by Miguel Arteta1h 22m2017
Beatriz, an immigrant from a poor town in Mexico, has drawn on her innate kindness to build a career as a health practitioner. Doug Strutt is a cutthroat, self-satisfied billionaire. When these two opposites meet at a dinner party, their worlds collide, and neither will ever be the same.
Our read: Beatriz at Dinner (2017) reads as a sombre, measured, grounded drama · comedy entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Sombre, measured, measured drama / comedy, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- sombre
- measured
- bleak
- cold
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