Hyde Park on Hudson
- warm
- gentle
Warm, steady, gentle comedy / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →The story of the love affair between FDR and his distant cousin Margaret Stuckley, centered around the weekend in 1939 when the King and Queen of the United Kingdom visited upstate New York.
Our read · Hyde Park on Hudson (2012) reads as a warm, steady, grounded comedy · drama · history entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
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The shape of Hyde Park on Hudson
What watching it is actually like.
“You want Bill Murray as FDR in a cozy royal-visit period piece.”
Skip it tonight — Skip if presidential affairs and muted passion leave you restless.
The reading.
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