tenderness

Depicting the uncertainty of their lives with a truthful tenderness, “All We Imagine as Light” makes the personal political.

Prompted by her recollection, I reminisced about the tenderness of listening from the doorway as my father read Goodnight, Moon to my sons, and how I missed the reassurance of his presence, this Navy officer who passed away five years ago.

No wonder, then, that a filmmaker as attuned to tenderness and violence as Audiard has found the stuff of his metaphor-laden genre dreams in the story of a trans queenpin emerging from a toxic male shell.

Bird often has an air of menace, but also a certain tenderness.

But the musical’s heart belongs to Carmello’s Kimberly and Gil’s Seth, thanks to the tenderness that unexpectedly flowers between them.