2019 · drama · music
The Kindness of Strangers
Directed by Lone Scherfig1h 52m2019
Clara and her two sons escape from her abusive husband with little more than their car and plan to start over in New York. After the car towed away, the family meets Alice, who gets them into an emergency shelter. While stealing food at a Russian restaurant called ‘Winter Palace’, Clara meets Marc, who has been given the chance to help the old eatery regain its former glory. The ‘Winter Palace’ soon becomes a place of unexpected encounters between people who are all undergoing some sort of crisis and whom fate has now brought together.
Our read: The Kindness of Strangers (2019) reads as a warm, measured, grounded drama · music entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Warm, measured, gentle drama / music, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, tender.
- measured
- gentle
- redemptive
- tender
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