Happy Hour (2015)
- slow-burn
- signature
- intimate
Neutral, slow-burn, gentle drama, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →Four women in their thirties reevaluate their relationships, both shared and private, after a startling revelation concerning one's marriage forces each of them to ask one of life's biggest questions: "Am I who I want to be?"
Our read · Happy Hour (2015) (2015) reads as a neutral, slow-burn, grounded drama entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
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The shape of Happy Hour
What watching it is actually like.
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The reading.
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