2007 · comedy · drama · romance
The Good Night
Directed by Jake Paltrow1h 33m2007
Gary, a musician, is trapped in an unhappy relationship with his live-in lover, Dora. He becomes enthralled with a beautiful seductress who enters his dreams, and tries to control his dream-state so he can spend more and more time with her. When Gary sees his mystery woman's face on a bus billboard, he discovers she is real, and fate brings him an opportunity to meet her.
Our read: The Good Night (2007) reads as a sombre, measured, inventive comedy · drama · romance entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Sombre, measured, gentle comedy / drama, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- sombre
- measured
- gentle
- cold
- intimate
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