2003 · comedy · romance · crime
Intolerable Cruelty
Directed by Joel Coen1h 40m2003
A revenge-seeking gold digger marries a womanizing Beverly Hills lawyer with the intention of making a killing in the divorce.
Our read: Intolerable Cruelty (2003) reads as a warm, kinetic, inventive comedy · romance · crime entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, measured comedy / romance, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- warm
- brisk
- intense
- twisty
- funny
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