A (2022) poster
2022 · drama

A

Directed by Tatyana Zhukova24m2022
ElsewhereIMDb7.5652kRT96%Metacritic82
  • measured
  • gentle
  • inventive
  • intimate
Movie DNA

Neutral, measured, gentle drama, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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Every person you meet is fighting a battle you don't know anything about. Lena comes to the countryside to collect and take things out of the house she has sold. neighbor igor interferes with her plans. he sits in a tree around the clock and screams driving lena crazy.

Our read · A (2022) reads as a neutral, measured, surreal drama entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want a spare short about an uninvited stranger's private torment.

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Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around

Skip it tonightYou want easy comfort or polished entertainment with clear arcs.

DNA · twelve axes

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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