2020 · comedy · fantasy · romance
Blithe Spirit
Directed by Edward Hall1h 39m2020
A spiritualist medium holds a seance for a writer suffering from writers block but accidentally summons the spirit of his deceased first wife which leads to an increasingly complex love triangle with his current wife of five years.
Our read: Blithe Spirit (2020) reads as a cosy, kinetic, grounded comedy · fantasy · romance entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Cosy, kinetic, gentle comedy / fantasy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- cosy
- gentle
- intimate
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