2011 · drama · romance
One Day
Directed by Lone Scherfig1h 47m2011
After spending the night together on the eve of their college graduation, Dexter and Emma are shown each year on the same date to see where they are in their lives. They are sometimes together, and sometimes not.
Our read: One Day (2011) reads as a warm, steady, grounded drama · romance entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, steady, measured drama / romance, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, tender.
- warm
- tender
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