Dark Horse (2011)
- heavy
- bleak
Heavy, steady, measured comedy / drama, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
How every film is hand-scored →Abe is a man who is in his thirties and who lives with his parents. He works regretfully for his father while pursuing his hobby of collecting toys. Aware that his family doesn't think highly of him, he tries to spark a relationship with Miranda, who recently moved back home after a failed literary/academic career. Miranda agrees to marry Abe out of desperation, but things go awry.
Our read · Dark Horse (2011) (2011) reads as a heavy, steady, grounded comedy · drama entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
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The shape of Dark Horse
What watching it is actually like.
“You want Todd Solondz dark comedy about a sad man-child chasing love.”
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The reading.
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