2011 · drama · comedy · romance
Submarine
Directed by Richard Ayoade1h 38m2011
15-year-old deep-thinking Welsh schoolboy Oliver Tate struggles to initiate and maintain a relationship with Jordana, his devilish, dark-haired classmate at their Swansea high school. As his parents' marriage begins to fall apart, similar problems arise in his relationship with Jordana.
Our read: Submarine (2011) reads as a neutral, measured, inventive drama · comedy · romance entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, measured, gentle drama / comedy, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- measured
- gentle
- intimate
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