2017 · comedy · romance
The Exes
Directed by Maurice Barthélemy1h 24m2017
In Paris, the City of Love, five very different couples cross paths while dealing with break-ups, exes and new love interests. None of them have anything in common. But everyone is someone else’s ex – and love works in mysterious ways…
Our read: The Exes (2017) reads as a cosy, kinetic, grounded comedy · romance entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Cosy, kinetic, gentle comedy / romance, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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- gentle
- intimate
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