2012 · comedy · drama · music
On Air
Directed by Pierre Pinaud1h 29m2012
At 40, Molina is the most famous radio host in France: she hosts a nightly call-in show where she answers questions from callers with sexual and emotional problems. When she decides to look for her mother whom she never knew, she discovers her living in the suburbs.
Our read: On Air (2012) reads as a warm, steady, grounded comedy · drama · music entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, steady, gentle comedy / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- warm
- gentle
- intimate
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