2008 · drama · romance · fantasy
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Directed by David Fincher2h 46m2008
Born under unusual circumstances, Benjamin Button springs into being as an elderly man in a New Orleans nursing home and ages in reverse. Twelve years after his birth, he meets Daisy, a child who flits in and out of his life as she grows up to be a dancer. Though he has all sorts of unusual adventures over the course of his life, it is his relationship with Daisy, and the hope that they will come together at the right time, that drives Benjamin forward.
Our read: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008) reads as a neutral, measured, grounded drama · romance · fantasy entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, measured, gentle drama / romance, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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