2014 · drama · romance · heist
Third Person
Directed by Paul Haggis2h 17m2014
An acclaimed novelist struggles to write an analysis of love in one of three stories, each set in a different city, that detail the beginning, middle and end of a relationship.
Our read: Third Person (2014) reads as a sombre, measured, grounded drama · romance · heist entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Sombre, measured, gentle drama / romance, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- sombre
- measured
- gentle
- cold
- twisty
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Skip it tonight — You need a clean ending tonight; this interwoven melodrama frustrates more than it rewards.
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