1995 · drama · romance
Leaving Las Vegas
Directed by Mike Figgis1h 51m1995
Ben Sanderson, an alcoholic Hollywood screenwriter who lost everything because of his drinking, arrives in Las Vegas to drink himself to death. There, he meets and forms an uneasy friendship and non-interference pact with prostitute Sera.
Our read: Leaving Las Vegas (1995) reads as a heavy, measured, grounded drama · romance entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, measured, measured drama / romance, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, measured.
- heavy
- measured
- intense
- bleak
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