A Village Almost Perfect!
- cosy
- brisk
- gentle
- redemptive
- tender
Cosy, kinetic, gentle comedy, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, tender, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →"Saint-Loin-la-Mauderne", a tiny village hurt by the financial crisis and the desertification. Its last hope : Start back the Smoked Salmon factory. The only issue : Insurances require a permanent doctor on site. But it s has been 5 years the previous doctor retired without setting a replacement. The whole village,supporting their surly major Germain, will try everything to convince the very Parisian Doctor Maxime Meyer that happiness is only at Saint-Loin-la-Mauderne! This movie is the french remake of the Canadian movie 'la Grande Seduction'
Our read · A Village Almost Perfect! (2014) reads as a cosy, kinetic, grounded comedy entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive 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 Village Almost Perfect!
What watching it is actually like.
“You want a feel-good French village comedy about community ingenuity.”
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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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