1979 · musical · drama
Hair
Directed by Miloš Forman2h 1m1979
Upon receiving his draft notice and leaving his family ranch in Oklahoma, Claude heads to New York and befriends a tribe of long-haired hippies on his way to boot camp.
Our read: Hair (1979) reads as a warm, kinetic, inventive musical · drama entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, measured musical / drama, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- warm
- brisk
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How Hair feels to watch.
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What watching it is actually like.
“You want big hippie musical numbers that turn into a Vietnam gut punch.”
Skip it tonight — Skip if nudity, drugs, and a brutal final turn will kill the sing-along mood.
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