2025 · romance · thriller
Close to Me
Directed by Stefano Sardo1h 43m2025
Luca is a forty-year-old teacher experiencing a relationship crisis with his wife, Sara, who is much wealthier than him. During the lockdown, Luca finds himself a bystander in the life of his new neighbor, Amanda, and decides to bridge the distance between them, with disastrous consequences.
Our read: Close to Me (2025) reads as a neutral, kinetic, grounded romance · thriller entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, kinetic, measured romance / thriller, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- brisk
- intense
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