2017 · drama · romance
Tulip Fever
Directed by Justin Chadwick1h 47m2017
An artist falls for a married young woman while he's commissioned to paint her portrait. The two invest in the risky tulip market in hopes to build a future together.
Our read: Tulip Fever (2017) reads as a neutral, steady, grounded drama · romance entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, steady, gentle drama / romance, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
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“You want painterly Dutch period lust tangled with tulip mania and betrayal.”
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