1999 · comedy · drama · family
Cosy Dens
Directed by Jan Hřebejk2h 1m1999
Two families, Sebkovi and Krausovi, are celebrating Christmas, but not everyone is in a good mood. The teenage kids think that their fathers are totally stupid, and the fathers are sure that their children are nothing more than rebels, hating anything they say.
Our read: Cosy Dens (1999) reads as a warm, kinetic, grounded comedy · drama · family entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, measured comedy / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, tender.
- warm
- brisk
- tender
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