2009 · romance · fantasy · drama
The Twilight Saga: New Moon
Directed by Chris Weitz2h 11m2009
Forks, Washington resident Bella Swan is reeling from the departure of her vampire love, Edward Cullen, and finds comfort in her friendship with Jacob Black, a werewolf. But before she knows it, she's thrust into a centuries-old conflict, and her desire to be with Edward at any cost leads her to take greater and greater risks.
Our read: The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009) reads as a sombre, steady, inventive romance · fantasy · drama entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, steady, measured romance / fantasy, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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