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Return to Montauk

2017 · 106 min

A quiet, wistful reunion that drifts between tenderness and regret, asking you to sit with what might have been.

Overview: Author Max Zorn, now in his early 60s, is on a promotional book tour in New York when he encounters the woman he could never forget. They spend a weekend together, seventeen years have passed. Can there be a future for their past?
How it feels: Melancholic, romantic, earnest and tense. Slow-burning and needs your attention.
About: Love, memory, grief, identity
Content: Mild sexual content and language. No violence or gore.
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Tone: melancholicstrength 3 of 3
romanticstrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: love
memory
grief
identity
betrayal
Places: big city
countryside
road trip
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: None
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence none
Sex mild