2011 · drama · coming-of-age
Detachment
Directed by Tony Kaye1h 38m2011
A chronicle of three weeks in the lives of several high school teachers, administrators and students through the eyes of substitute teacher, Henry Barthes. Henry roams from school to school, imparting modes of knowledge, but never staying long enough to form any semblance of sentient attachment.
Our read: Detachment (2011) reads as a neutral, steady, grounded drama · coming-of-age entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, steady, measured drama / coming-of-age, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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