2016 · drama · romance
Collateral Beauty
Directed by David Frankel1h 37m2016
Retreating from life after a tragedy, a man questions the universe by writing to Love, Time and Death. Receiving unexpected answers, he begins to see how these things interlock and how even loss can reveal moments of meaning and beauty.
Our read: Collateral Beauty (2016) reads as a warm, steady, grounded drama · romance entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, steady, measured drama / romance, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, tender.
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- tender
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