2021 · comedy · crime · romance
Locked Down
Directed by Doug Liman1h 58m2021
During a COVID-19 lockdown, sparring couple Linda and Paxton call a truce to attempt a high-risk jewellery heist at one of the world's most exclusive department stores, Harrods.
Our read: Locked Down (2021) reads as a warm, steady, grounded comedy · crime · romance entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, steady, gentle comedy / crime, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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- gentle
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