2019 · drama · romance
Ordinary Love
Directed by Lisa Barros D'Sa, Glenn Leyburn1h 32m2019
An extraordinary look at the lives of a middle-aged couple in the midst of the wife's breast cancer diagnosis.
Our read: Ordinary Love (2019) reads as a sombre, slow-burn, grounded drama · romance entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, slow-burn, gentle drama / romance, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, tender.
- sombre
- slow-burn
- gentle
- tender
- intimate
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