2022 · romance · drama
First Love
Directed by A.J. Edwards1h 35m2022
A young man’s difficult entry into adulthood, who experiences the highs and lows of his first love, while dealing with the familial fallout spurred by the financial crisis of 2008.
Our read: First Love (2022) reads as a neutral, measured, grounded romance · drama entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, measured, gentle romance / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- measured
- gentle
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