What Richard Did
- sombre
- intense
- intimate
Sombre, steady, measured drama / coming-of-age, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →What Richard Did is a striking portrait of the fall of a Dublin golden-boy and high school rugby star whose world unravels one summer night.
Our read · What Richard Did (2012) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded drama · coming-of-age entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
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The shape of What Richard Did
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