Alaska
- sombre
Sombre, steady, measured drama / romance, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →Nadine is a French young woman. Fausto is an Italian young man trying to make it in Paris as a restaurant waiter. They accidentally meet at a five-star hotel. Both are fragile, alone and obsessed with the idea of an unattainable happiness. Their intense love is challenged by their own individual ambition and desperation.
Our read · Alaska (2015) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded drama · romance entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
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The shape of Alaska
What watching it is actually like.
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The reading.
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