My Big Night
- warm
- kinetic
- inventive
- cold
- twisty
- funny
Warm, breathless, measured comedy / music, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, cold.
How every film is hand-scored →Coslada, near Madrid, Spain, October 2015. Hundreds of extras are trapped in a huge stage where they pretend with hysterical joy that they are celebrating a party that will be broadcast on television on New Year's Eve. But more than a week later, the clash between several staff members threatens to prolong indefinitely such a maddening nightmare.
Our read · My Big Night (2015) reads as a warm, breathless, inventive comedy · music · drama entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
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The shape of My Big Night
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