2009 · comedy · drama
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
Directed by John Krasinski1h 20m2009
After her boyfriend mysteriously leaves her with little explanation, a doctoral candidate in anthropology at a prestigious East Coast university is left looking for answers as to what went wrong.
Our read: Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (2009) reads as a sombre, measured, inventive comedy · drama entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Sombre, measured, gentle comedy / drama, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- sombre
- measured
- gentle
- bleak
- cold
- intimate
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