2014 · drama · romance · coming-of-age
Close Range Love
Directed by Naoto Kumazawa1h 58m2014
A smart high school student falls in love with her English teacher after she receives one-on-one tutoring from him.
Our read: Close Range Love (2014) reads as a warm, steady, grounded drama · romance · coming-of-age entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, steady, gentle drama / romance, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- warm
- gentle
- intimate
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