1965 · musical · family
The Sound of Music
Directed by Robert Wise2h 54m1965
In the years before World War II, a tomboyish postulant at an Austrian abbey is hired as a governess in the home of a widowed naval captain with seven children and brings a new love of life and music into the home.
Our read: The Sound of Music (1965) reads as a cosy, steady, grounded musical · family entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, steady, gentle musical / family, grounded in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, tender.
- cosy
- gentle
- redemptive
- tender
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