2022 · comedy · crime · romance
The Innocent
Directed by Louis Garrel1h 39m2022
Sylvie, a nearly sixty-year-old woman, has fallen in love with Michel, a thug she marries in prison. The couple dream of starting again with a clean slate by opening a flower shop. But Sylvie’s son Abel, convinced that Michel will fall into a life of crime, disapproves of this relationship.
Our read: The Innocent (2022) reads as a warm, kinetic, grounded comedy · crime · romance entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, gentle comedy / crime, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, measured.
- warm
- brisk
- gentle
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