2015 · drama · romance
Fifty Shades of Grey (2015)
Directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson2h 5m2015
When college senior Anastasia Steele steps in for her sick roommate to interview prominent businessman Christian Grey for their campus paper, little does she realize the path her life will take. Christian, as enigmatic as he is rich and powerful, finds himself strangely drawn to Ana, and she to him. Though sexually inexperienced, Ana plunges headlong into an affair -- and learns that Christian's true sexual proclivities push the boundaries of pain and pleasure.
Our read: Fifty Shades of Grey (2015) (2015) reads as a neutral, steady, grounded drama · romance entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, steady, measured drama / romance, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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