Kiss Me Kate (1953)
- cosy
- brisk
- redemptive
- intimate
Cosy, kinetic, gentle musical / comedy, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →A pair of divorced actors are brought together to participate in a musical version of The Taming of the Shrew. Of course, the couple seem to act a great deal like the characters they play, and they must work together when mistaken identities get them mixed up with the mafia.
Our read · Kiss Me Kate (1953) (1953) reads as a cosy, kinetic, grounded musical · comedy · romance entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
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The shape of Kiss Me Kate
What watching it is actually like.
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