2004 · thriller · drama · romance
The Phantom of the Opera
Directed by Joel Schumacher2h 21m2004
A young soprano becomes the obsession of a disfigured and murderous musical genius who lives beneath the Paris Opera House.
Our read: The Phantom of the Opera (2004) reads as a neutral, steady, grounded thriller · drama · romance entry — extreme in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, steady, extreme thriller / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, tender.
- extreme
- tender
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