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The Lunchbox

2013 · Romance · Ritesh Batra · 1h 45m

Mumbai's lunchbox service delivers a wife's cooking to the wrong desk, and the man who eats it writes back. Most of the film is two people passing notes, in a city that never stops moving.

  • Strongly realistic
  • Strongly intimate
  • Strongly character-driven

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