2008 · comedy · romance
Easy Virtue
Directed by Stephan Elliott1h 33m2008
A young Englishman marries a glamorous American. When he brings her home to meet the parents, she arrives like a blast from the future - blowing their entrenched British stuffiness out the window.
Our read: Easy Virtue (2008) reads as a cosy, kinetic, grounded comedy · romance entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Cosy, kinetic, gentle comedy / romance, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- cosy
- brisk
- gentle
- intimate
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