2011 · drama · sci-fi · romance
Perfect Sense
Directed by David Mackenzie1h 33m2011
In Glasgow, Scotland, while a mysterious pandemic begins to spread around the world, Susan, a brilliant epidemiologist, falls in love with Michael, a skillful cook.
Our read: Perfect Sense (2011) reads as a warm, steady, inventive drama · sci-fi · romance entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, steady, measured drama / sci-fi, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, tender.
- warm
- tender
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