We call it a —and it might just be the most difficult, rewarding, and humanistic genre in all of filmmaking.
So the next time you watch a film and you’re crying during a funny part or laughing during a sad one, don’t worry. You’re not broken. You’re just watching a comedy-drama. And you’re feeling, for 90 minutes, exactly what it feels like to be human. comedy-drama film
Directors like Hal Ashby ( Harold and Maude ), Robert Altman ( M A S H*), and Mike Nichols ( The Graduate ) tore up the rulebook. Harold and Maude is the patron saint of the genre: a suicidal young man obsessed with death falls in love with a 79-year-old Holocaust survivor who loves life. It is morbid, joyful, absurd, and profoundly moving. We call it a —and it might just
In the landscape of modern cinema, genres are often treated like neat, labeled drawers. Horror goes in one, romance in another, and action in a third. But what happens when a film refuses to stay in its assigned drawer? What do we call a movie that makes you laugh until you cry, then cry because you were just laughing? You’re just watching a comedy-drama