2007 · comedy · crime · thriller
The Baker
Directed by Gareth Lewis1h 26m2007
Milo is a professional hit man living on the edge. When failing to fulfill a contract for the first time, he escapes the city to avoid the wrath of his employers. Hiding out in a remote rural village, the locals mistake him for the new baker.
Our read: The Baker (2007) reads as a warm, kinetic, grounded comedy · crime · thriller entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, measured comedy / crime, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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