The Apple Game
- brisk
- intimate
Neutral, kinetic, measured comedy / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →Sarcastic comedy about the Czechoslovakia of the seventies. A young gynaecologist can't figure out whether to get serious with a young nurse or to stay casual with his married lover. Things get complicated when both women don't want to play his game anymore.
Our read · The Apple Game (1977) reads as a neutral, kinetic, grounded comedy · drama entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
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