Malicious
- warm
- brisk
- gentle
- tender
Warm, kinetic, gentle comedy, grounded in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, tender.
How every film is hand-scored →A widower and two of his sons become infatuated by their beautiful housekeeper, and all three set out to seduce her using their own unique methods.
Our read · Malicious (1973) reads as a warm, kinetic, grounded comedy entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
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The shape of Malicious
What watching it is actually like.
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The reading.
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