1986 · comedy · iranian
The Tenants
Directed by Danny Green1h 37m1986
The story of a Jewish novelist, Harry Lesser, struggling to complete his latest work, and his antagonistic relationship with a black writer who moves in down the hall.
Our read: The Tenants (1986) reads as a warm, kinetic, grounded comedy · iranian entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, gentle comedy / iranian, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- warm
- brisk
- gentle
- intimate
- funny
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