1959 · kitchen-sink · new-wave · drama
Look Back in Anger
Directed by Tony Richardson1h 38m1959
A disillusioned, angry university graduate comes to terms with his grudge against middle-class life and values.
Our read: Look Back in Anger (1959) reads as a heavy, steady, grounded kitchen-sink · new-wave · drama entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, steady, measured kitchen-sink / new-wave, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, measured.
- heavy
- intense
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