2009 · comedy · drama · romance
The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
Directed by Rebecca Miller1h 38m2009
After her much older husband forces a move to a suburban retirement community, Pippa Lee engages in a period of reflection and finds herself heading toward a quiet nervous breakdown.
Our read: The Private Lives of Pippa Lee (2009) reads as a neutral, measured, grounded comedy · drama · romance entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, measured, gentle comedy / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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- intimate
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