2013 · drama · period · adaptation
The Great Gatsby
Directed by Baz Luhrmann2h 23m2013
An adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Long Island-set novel, where Midwesterner Nick Carraway is lured into the lavish world of his neighbor, Jay Gatsby. Soon enough, however, Carraway will see through the cracks of Gatsby's nouveau riche existence, where obsession, madness, and tragedy await.
Our read: The Great Gatsby (2013) reads as a neutral, breathless, inventive drama · period · adaptation entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Neutral, breathless, measured drama / period, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, measured.
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