2013 · drama · fantasy · romance
The Firefly
Directed by Ana Maria Hermida1h 28m2013
After her estranged brother's sudden death, young wife Lucia bonds with his fiancée through their shared grief and finds herself falling in love.
Our read: The Firefly (2013) reads as a neutral, measured, grounded drama · fantasy · romance entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, measured, gentle drama / fantasy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, tender.
- measured
- gentle
- intimate
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