2017 · drama · period · melodrama
Wonder Wheel
Directed by Woody Allen1h 41m2017
The story of four characters whose lives intertwine amid the hustle and bustle of the Coney Island amusement park in the 1950s: Ginny, an emotionally volatile former actress now working as a waitress in a clam house; Humpty, Ginny’s rough-hewn carousel operator husband; Mickey, a handsome young lifeguard who dreams of becoming a playwright; and Carolina, Humpty’s long-estranged daughter, who is now hiding out from gangsters at her father’s apartment.
Our read: Wonder Wheel (2017) reads as a sombre, kinetic, grounded drama · period · melodrama entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured drama / period, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, measured.
- sombre
- brisk
- bleak
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