2006 · comedy · drama · music
Winter Passing
Directed by Adam Rapp1h 38m2006
Actress Reese Holden has been offered a small fortune by a book editor if she can secure for publication the love letters that her father, a reclusive novelist, wrote to her mother, who has since passed away. Returning to Michigan, Reese finds that an ex-grad student and a would-be musician have moved in with her father, who cares more about his new friends than he does about his own health and well-being.
Our read: Winter Passing (2006) reads as a sombre, measured, grounded comedy · drama · music entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, measured, gentle comedy / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- sombre
- measured
- intimate
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