Abigail
- warm
- kinetic
- inventive
- redemptive
Warm, breathless, measured adventure / fantasy, inventive in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →A young girl Abigail lives in a city whose borders were closed many years ago because of an epidemic of a mysterious disease. Abby's father was one of the sick - and he was taken when she was six years old. Going against the authorities to find his father, Abby learns that her city is actually full of magic. And she discovers in herself extraordinary magical abilities.
Our read · Abigail (2019) reads as a warm, breathless, inventive adventure · fantasy · mystery entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured 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 Abigail
What watching it is actually like.
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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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