1995 · musical · comedy · paris
Up, Down, Fragile
Directed by Jacques Rivette2h 49m1995
A librarian, a gangster's ex-lover and a woman who has recovered from a coma spend an eye-opening summer in Paris.
Our read: Up, Down, Fragile (1995) reads as a warm, kinetic, inventive musical · comedy · paris entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Warm, kinetic, gentle musical / comedy, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- warm
- brisk
- gentle
- inventive
- intimate
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