1990 · drama · romance
Trust (Hal Hartley)
Directed by Hal Hartley1h 46m1990
After being thrown away from home, pregnant high school dropout Maria meets Matthew, a highly educated and extremely moody electronics repairman. The two begin an unusual romance built on their sense of mutual admiration and trust.
Our read: Trust (Hal Hartley) (1990) reads as a sombre, measured, grounded drama · romance entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Sombre, measured, measured drama / romance, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- sombre
- measured
- intimate
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