1950 · drama · courtroom · true-story
Madeleine
Directed by David Lean1h 55m1950
Madeleine's middle-class family cannot understand why she puts off marrying a respectable young man, as they know nothing about her long-term affair with a Frenchman.
Our read: Madeleine (1950) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded drama · courtroom · true-story entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Sombre, steady, measured drama / courtroom, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
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