Return of the Secaucus 7
- intimate
Neutral, steady, gentle sayles / ensemble, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →Seven former college friends, along with a few new friends, gather for a weekend reunion at a summer house in New Hampshire to reminisce about the good old days, when they got arrested on the way to a protest in Washington, D.C.
Our read · Return of the Secaucus 7 (1980) reads as a neutral, steady, grounded sayles · ensemble · reunion entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
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The shape of Return of the Secaucus 7
What watching it is actually like.
“You want an honest talky reunion of 60s radicals confronting who they became.”
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The reading.
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