2020 · music · drama
Clouds
Directed by Justin Baldoni2h 1m2020
Young musician Zach Sobiech discovers his cancer has spread, leaving him just a few months to live. With limited time, he follows his dream and makes an album, unaware that it will soon be a viral music phenomenon.
Our read: Clouds (2020) reads as a neutral, steady, inventive music · drama entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, steady, measured music / drama, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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- inventive
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