2019 · queer · coming-of-age · psychological
Make Up
Directed by Claire Oakley1h 26m2019
After Ruth moves in with her boyfriend in a remote holiday park, tensions rise as she makes an unsettling discovery that lures her into a spiral of obsession.
Our read: Make Up (2019) reads as a sombre, measured, inventive queer · coming-of-age · psychological entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, measured, measured queer / coming-of-age, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- sombre
- measured
- intimate
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