The Truth About Love
- warm
- brisk
- gentle
- intimate
Warm, kinetic, gentle drama / romance, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →As part of a drunken bet with her sister Felicity, happily married Alice sends an anonymous Valentine's card to her husband Sam to see if he hides it. When he does, what was a prank leads to a series of events and revelations that may put her marriage at risk, and leaves her looking for answers.
Our read · The Truth About Love (2005) reads as a warm, kinetic, grounded drama · romance · comedy entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
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The shape of The Truth About Love
What watching it is actually like.
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The reading.
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