2005 · drama · mystery
Proof
Directed by John Madden1h 40m2005
Catherine is a woman in her late twenties who is strongly devoted to her father, Robert, a brilliant and well-known mathematician whose grip on reality is beginning to slip away. As Robert descends into madness, Catherine begins to wonder if she may have inherited her father's mental illness along with his mathematical genius.
Our read: Proof (2005) reads as a sombre, measured, grounded drama · mystery entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, measured, measured drama / mystery, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- sombre
- measured
- intimate
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