2020 · drama · romance
Life in a Year
Directed by Mitja Okorn1h 47m2020
A 17 year old finds out that his girlfriend is dying, so he sets out to give her an entire life, in the last year she has left.
Our read: Life in a Year (2020) reads as a neutral, steady, grounded drama · romance entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, steady, measured drama / romance, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, tender.
- tender
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