1981 · drama · romance · history
Reds
Directed by Warren Beatty3h 15m1981
An account of the revolutionary years of the legendary American journalist John Reed, who shared his adventurous professional life with his radical commitment to the socialist revolution in Russia, his dream of spreading its principles among the members of the American working class, and his troubled romantic relationship with the writer Louise Bryant.
Our read: Reds (1981) reads as a sombre, measured, grounded drama · romance · history entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, measured, measured drama / romance, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- measured
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