The Last Time
- sombre
- bleak
- cold
Sombre, steady, measured drama / romance, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
How every film is hand-scored →Ted Ryker is the top salesman in the New York office of a business machine company; the corporate stock lives by quarterly sales numbers, the competition is keen, and the economy may be in a downturn. Ted's company is marking time until a new product is ready – probably in a few months. Into the mix comes a new hire, a callow Midwesterner named Jamie, who's come East with his fiancée Belisa.
Our read · The Last Time (2006) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded drama · romance entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
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The shape of The Last Time
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