2024 · crime · thriller · romance
Marmalade
Directed by Keir O'Donnell1h 39m2024
Baron, an imprisoned man, strikes up a friendship with cellmate Otis. As the pair hatch an escape plan together, Baron recalls the story of how he met Marmalade, the love of his life, and their Bonnie and Clyde scheme to rob a bank in order to care for his sick mother and give the couple the life they’ve always dreamed of.
Our read: Marmalade (2024) reads as a neutral, kinetic, inventive crime · thriller · romance entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, kinetic, measured crime / thriller, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, tender.
- brisk
- intense
- inventive
- tender
- twisty
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