2019 · adaptation · drama · grief
The Goldfinch
Directed by John Crowley2h 29m2019
A boy in New York is taken in by a wealthy family after his mother is killed in a bombing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In a rush of panic, he steals 'The Goldfinch', a painting that eventually draws him into a world of crime.
Our read: The Goldfinch (2019) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded adaptation · drama · grief entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, steady, measured adaptation / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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