2022 · drama · romance
Joyland
Directed by Saim Sadiq2h 7m2022
As a patriarchal family yearns for the birth of a son to continue their family line, their youngest son secretly joins an erotic dance theatre and falls for its transgender starlet.
Our read: Joyland (2022) reads as a sombre, measured, grounded drama · romance entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Sombre, measured, measured drama / romance, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- sombre
- measured
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