2021 · comedy · romance
Hear Me Out
Directed by Pascal Elbé1h 33m2021
Antoine, a history teacher in his early 50s, learns that he has become very hard of hearing. Unable to own up to his handicap, he resigns himself to living in his bubble, even though his entourage finds his behavior increasingly odd. His encounter with Claire, widow and mother of a young girl who has stopped speaking, will lead him to open up to the world.
Our read: Hear Me Out (2021) reads as a cosy, steady, grounded comedy · romance entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, steady, gentle comedy / romance, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, tender.
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- redemptive
- tender
- intimate
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