2002 · drama · comedy
The Rules of Attraction
Directed by Roger Avary1h 50m2002
The incredibly spoiled and overprivileged students of Camden College are a backdrop for an unusual love triangle between a drug dealer, a virgin and a bisexual classmate.
Our read: The Rules of Attraction (2002) reads as a heavy, kinetic, inventive drama · comedy entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Heavy, kinetic, measured drama / comedy, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- heavy
- brisk
- intense
- inventive
- bleak
- cold
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