Ingrid Goes West
- sombre
- brisk
- cold
Sombre, kinetic, measured comedy / drama, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
How every film is hand-scored →Ingrid becomes obsessed with a social network star named Taylor Sloane who seemingly has a perfect life. But when Ingrid decides to drop everything and move west to be Taylor's friend, her behaviour turns unsettling and dangerous.
Our read · Ingrid Goes West (2017) reads as a sombre, kinetic, grounded comedy · drama entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
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The shape of Ingrid Goes West
What watching it is actually like.
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