2011 · comedy · drama · road
Either Way
Directed by Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson1h 24m2011
Two employees of the Icelandic Road Administration spend the summer painting lines on the winding roads as they both find themselves at a crossroads in their lives.
Our read: Either Way (2011) reads as a neutral, measured, grounded comedy · drama · road entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, measured, gentle comedy / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- measured
- intimate
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