2023 · drama
Fairyland (2023)
Directed by Andrew Durham1h 56m2023
A father-daughter relationship evolves through an era of bohemian decadence in 1970s San Francisco to the sober and heartbreaking era of the AIDS crisis in the 1980s.
Our read: Fairyland (2023) (2023) reads as a sombre, measured, grounded drama entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, measured, measured drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- measured
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