2000 · comedy · romance · drama
High Fidelity
Directed by Stephen Frears1h 53m2000
After his long-time girlfriend dumps him, a thirty-year-old record store owner seeks to understand why he is unlucky in love while recounting his "top five breakups of all time".
Our read: High Fidelity (2000) reads as a warm, steady, grounded comedy · romance · drama entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, steady, gentle comedy / romance, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- gentle
- intimate
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“You want music-nerd breakup introspection with Cusack's fourth-wall charm.”
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