2016 · drama · romance · tv-movie
Looking: The Movie
Directed by Andrew Haigh1h 25m2016
Patrick returns to San Francisco for the first time in almost a year to celebrate a momentous event with his old friends. In the process, he must face the unresolved relationships he left behind and make difficult choices about what’s important to him.
Our read: Looking: The Movie (2016) reads as a neutral, kinetic, grounded drama · romance · tv-movie entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, kinetic, gentle drama / romance, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, tender.
- gentle
- tender
Watching Looking tonight? Spin for your lens.
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How Looking feels to watch.
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What watching it is actually like.
“You want a tender San Francisco finale about love, friendship, and growing up.”
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