melodrama

It’s also a tender tale about the perils and promises of starting over that owes as much to Mexico’s trite telenovelas as it does to its big-hearted melodramas.

For a first-time filmmaker, Kaphar confidently dives into his story’s complications, maintaining a texture even when certain parts slip into melodrama.

It’s a police procedural, a metaphorical family comedy, a workplace comedy, a soap opera, a melodrama, a low-budget action adventure.

Large helpings of camp and melodrama propel grisly tales of ghoulish behavior.

Two years later she was nominated for a Bafta as best newcomer n the 1958 melodrama, Nowhere to Go, in which she played a girl who shelters an escaped convict.