The Pass
- sombre
- measured
- gentle
- intimate
Sombre, measured, gentle drama / romance, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →The night before their debut game, two professional soccer players share a kiss. In a sporting world where image is everything, this surprising ‘pass’ sets the men up for a contrasting decade of fame and failure, full of secrets and denial.
Our read · The Pass (2016) reads as a sombre, measured, grounded drama · romance · music entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
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The shape of The Pass
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The reading.
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