2009 · drama · romance · music
The Messenger
Directed by Oren Moverman1h 53m2009
Will Montgomery, a U.S. Army Staff Sergeant who has returned home from Iraq, is assigned to the Army’s Casualty Notification service. Montgomery is partnered with Captain Tony Stone, to give notice to the families of fallen soldiers. The Sergeant is drawn to Olivia Pitterson, to whom he has delivered news of her husband’s death.
Our read: The Messenger (2009) reads as a heavy, measured, grounded drama · romance · music entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Heavy, measured, measured drama / romance, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- heavy
- measured
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