Begin Again
- cosy
- gentle
- tender
- funny
Cosy, steady, gentle comedy / music, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, tender.
How every film is hand-scored →Gretta, a budding songwriter, finds herself alone after her boyfriend Dave ditches her. Her life gains purpose when Dan, a record label executive, notices her talent.
Our read · Begin Again (2014) reads as a cosy, steady, grounded comedy · music · romance entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
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The shape of Begin Again
What watching it is actually like.
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The reading.
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