2007 · music · drama · romance
The Hottest State
Directed by Ethan Hawke1h 57m2007
A young actor from Texas tries to make it in New York while struggling in his relationship with a beautiful singer/songwriter.
Our read: The Hottest State (2007) reads as a neutral, measured, grounded music · drama · romance entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, measured, gentle music / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- measured
- gentle
- intimate
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