Intermezzo
Sally Rooney • 2024
Devastation Rating
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Our Take
Two brothers, one dead father, completely different ways of surviving the grief. Peter medicates; Ivan falls in love with an older woman. Rooney is interested in what men do with their bodies when they don't have the words — the chess game, the sex, the pharmaceutical management of feeling. The tenderness between the brothers arrives late.
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