With Love... from the Age of Reason
- cosy
- gentle
- redemptive
- tender
- intimate
Cosy, steady, gentle comedy / romance, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, tender, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →The day she turns 40, Marguerite Flora, a successful rep for a nuclear power company, begins receiving letters she'd sent to herself at age seven. The letters tell her what to do if her life hasn't turned out the way she thought it should, when she was living in poverty with her mother and brother in a small village in southern France. She decides to go back to her birthplace to get the lawyer to stop the letters, but also to visit her childhood sweetheart and her long-forgotten brother, in order to find peace within herself.
Our read · With Love... from the Age of Reason (2010) reads as a cosy, steady, grounded comedy · romance entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.
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