Bacon on the Side
- cosy
- brisk
- gentle
- intimate
Cosy, kinetic, gentle comedy / romance, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →Djalil Boudaoud and Justine Lacroix are a surgeon and a television reporter who enter a romantic relationship despite the objections of their families to the cultural gap.
Our read · Bacon on the Side (2010) reads as a cosy, kinetic, grounded comedy · romance entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
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The shape of Bacon on the Side
What watching it is actually like.
“You want a charming French romcom about love across cultural and family divides.”
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The reading.
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