2019 · war · drama · romance
Tolkien
Directed by Dome Karukoski1h 52m2019
England, early 20th century. The future writer and philologist John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892-1973) and three of his schoolmates create a strong bond between them as they share the same passion for literature and art, a true fellowship that strengthens as they grow up, but the outbreak of World War I threatens to shatter it.
Our read: Tolkien (2019) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded war · drama · romance entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, steady, extreme war / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, tender.
- sombre
- extreme
- tender
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