X+Y
- warm
- measured
- gentle
- redemptive
- tender
- intimate
Warm, measured, gentle drama / coming-of-age, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, tender.
How every film is hand-scored →A socially awkward teenage math prodigy finds new confidence and new friendships when he lands a spot on the British squad at the International Mathematics Olympiad.
Our read · X+Y (2014) reads as a warm, measured, grounded drama · coming-of-age entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
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The shape of X+Y
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The reading.
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