2020 · drama · music
The Boys in the Band
Directed by Joe Mantello2h 2m2020
At a birthday party in 1968 New York, a surprise guest and a drunken game leave seven gay friends reckoning with unspoken feelings and buried truths.
Our read: The Boys in the Band (2020) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded drama · music entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, steady, measured drama / music, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- sombre
- intense
- intimate
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