The Entertainer
- sombre
- bleak
- intimate
Sombre, steady, gentle drama / british, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
How every film is hand-scored →Archie Rice, an old-time British vaudeville performer sinking into final defeat, schemes to stay in show business.
Our read · The Entertainer (1960) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded drama · british entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
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The shape of The Entertainer
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