A Slightly Pregnant Man
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Warm, kinetic, gentle comedy / satire, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →Marco Mazzetti, a driving instructor, lives with his wife Irène and their young son. After a series of nauseous dizzy spells he goes to the doctor and discovers that he is four-months pregnant. Marco then becomes internationally famous.
Our read · A Slightly Pregnant Man (1973) reads as a warm, kinetic, inventive comedy · satire · fantasy entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured 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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The shape of A Slightly Pregnant Man
What watching it is actually like.
“You want charming French absurdist comedy about a man pregnant amid media and gender chaos.”
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The reading.
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Closeness in the twelve-axis space — how the film actually reads, not “people also liked.”
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