Jesus Henry Christ
- warm
- brisk
- gentle
- redemptive
- intimate
Cosy, kinetic, gentle comedy / family, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →At the age of ten, Henry James Hermin, a boy who was conceived in a petri-dish and raised by his feminist mother, follows a string of Post-It notes in hopes of finding his biological father.
Our read · Jesus Henry Christ (2012) reads as a cosy, kinetic, grounded comedy · family · drama entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
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The shape of Jesus Henry Christ
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