Love Hard
- cosy
- brisk
- gentle
- redemptive
- tender
Cosy, kinetic, gentle comedy / romance, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, tender.
How every film is hand-scored →An LA girl, unlucky in love, falls for an East Coast guy on a dating app and decides to surprise him for Christmas, only to discover that she's been catfished. But the object of her affection actually lives in the same town, and the guy who duped her offers to set them up if she pretends to be his own girlfriend for the holidays.
Our read · Love Hard (2021) reads as a cosy, kinetic, grounded comedy · romance entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
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The shape of Love Hard
What watching it is actually like.
“You want easy Christmas rom-com comfort with catfishing and fake-dating shenanigans.”
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The reading.
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