2016 · drama · family · lgbt
Kapoor & Sons
Directed by Shakun Batra2h 17m2016
Returning home to visit their ill grandfather, two estranged brothers must confront their unresolved rivalry while their parents’ marriage frays.
Our read: Kapoor & Sons (2016) reads as a neutral, kinetic, grounded drama · family · lgbt entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, kinetic, measured drama / family, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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