I Carry You with Me
- tender
Neutral, steady, measured drama / lgbt, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, tender, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →An epic love story spanning decades is sparked by a chance encounter between two men in provincial Mexico. Based on a true story, ambition and societal pressure propel an aspiring chef to leave his soulmate and make the treacherous journey to New York, where life will never be the same.
Our read · I Carry You with Me (2020) reads as a neutral, steady, grounded drama · lgbt · romance entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, ambivalent in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.
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The shape of I Carry You with Me
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