1939 · drama · romance · history
Gone with the Wind
Directed by Victor Fleming3h 53m1939
The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical profiteer during the American Civil War and Reconstruction Era.
Our read: Gone with the Wind (1939) reads as a sombre, measured, grounded drama · romance · history entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, measured, measured drama / romance, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- sombre
- measured
- intense
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