2011 · drama · thriller
I Melt with You
Directed by Mark Pellington2h 9m2011
Former college friends meet up for a reunion that leads them to face the apparent disillusionment that defines their lives. After a week of excessive drug and alcohol abuse, events lead them to contemplate fulfilling a self destructive pact they made when they were young.
Our read: I Melt with You (2011) reads as a heavy, measured, inventive drama · thriller entry — extreme in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, measured, extreme drama / thriller, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- heavy
- measured
- extreme
- bleak
- cold
- intimate
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