Mary Is Happy, Mary Is Happy
- brisk
- inventive
- intimate
Neutral, kinetic, measured drama / comedy, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →Mary is in her last course of school. She'll confront sudden changes in her life, loving relations and friendship. Based on some tweets of an anonymous girl.
Our read · Mary Is Happy, Mary Is Happy (2013) reads as a neutral, kinetic, inventive drama · comedy · coming-of-age entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
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The shape of Mary Is Happy, Mary Is Happy
What watching it is actually like.
“You enjoy surreal high school coming-of-age blending random tweets with real emotions and loss.”
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The reading.
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