2014 · comedy · drama · music
The Last Five Years
Directed by Richard LaGravenese1h 34m2014
In New York, a struggling actress and a successful writer sing about their failed marriage from two perspectives.
Our read: The Last Five Years (2014) reads as a neutral, steady, inventive comedy · drama · music entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, steady, gentle comedy / drama, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- gentle
- intimate
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