2012 · drama · music · sports
My Way
Directed by Florent-Emilio Siri2h 28m2012
A biopic of French pop star Claude Francois, most famous for co-writing the song 'My Way'. Tracing his life from his childhood in Egypt through his success in France to his untimely death in Paris in 1978.
Our read: My Way (2012) reads as a neutral, steady, grounded drama · music · sports entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, steady, gentle drama / music, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- gentle
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