Love According to Dalva
- heavy
- measured
Heavy, measured, measured drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →One evening, Dalva is suddenly taken away from her father’s house. Dumbfounded and outraged at first, she later meets Jayden, a social worker, and Samia, a teen with a temper. A new life seems to start for Dalva, that of a girl her age.
Our read · Love According to Dalva (2023) reads as a heavy, measured, grounded drama entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
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The shape of Love According to Dalva
What watching it is actually like.
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The reading.
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