2014 · comedy · drama
Inherent Vice
Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson2h 29m2014
In Los Angeles at the turn of the 1970s, drug-fueled detective Larry "Doc" Sportello investigates the disappearance of an ex-girlfriend.
Our read: Inherent Vice (2014) reads as a sombre, steady, inventive comedy · drama entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Sombre, steady, gentle comedy / drama, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- sombre
- inventive
- twisty
- signature
- intimate
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