2018 · comedy · romance · drama
Permission
Directed by Brian Crano1h 39m2018
Anna and Will, were each other’s first every-things: first kiss, first love, first and only relationship. Now, 10 years in, at Anna’s 30th birthday party, as Will is about to propose, the couple’s best friend makes a drunken toast, suggesting that they should sleep around before their inevitable marriage. The joke lands like a lead balloon, but the thought lingers until Anna proposes that they try opening their relationship – as a sexual experiment.
Our read: Permission (2018) reads as a neutral, steady, grounded comedy · romance · drama entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, steady, gentle comedy / romance, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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