Living Is Easy with Eyes Closed
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Warm, kinetic, gentle drama / road, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, tender, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →Spain, 1966. An English teacher who travels to Almería when he hears that John Lennon is making a film there befriends with a 16-year-old boy who has run away from home and a young girl who also seems to be running away from something.
Our read · Living Is Easy with Eyes Closed (2013) reads as a warm, kinetic, grounded drama · road · comedy entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, ambivalent 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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The shape of Living Is Easy with Eyes Closed
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“You want a sunny 1966 Spain road movie chasing Lennon and second chances.”
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