2014 · parody · romantic-comedy · absurdist
They Came Together
Directed by David Wain1h 23m2014
A small business owner is about to lose her shop to a major corporate development.
Our read: They Came Together (2014) reads as a cosy, breathless, inventive parody · romantic-comedy · absurdist entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Cosy, breathless, gentle parody / romantic-comedy, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- cosy
- kinetic
- gentle
- inventive
- intimate
- funny
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