Agathe Cléry (2008) poster
2008 · comedy

Agathe Cléry

Directed by Étienne Chatiliez1h 53m2008
ElsewhereIMDb4.6848
  • warm
  • brisk
  • gentle
  • inventive
  • intimate
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Warm, kinetic, gentle comedy, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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Agathe Clery, a marketing manager for a cosmetics company, is snobbish, stubborn and racist. When she is diagnosed with Addison Syndrome, an disorder that darkens the pigmentation of one's skin, she suddenly finds herself resembling a black woman.

Our read · Agathe Cléry (2008) reads as a warm, kinetic, inventive comedy 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 satirical French comedy about a racist woman forced into new skin.

ends warmyou’ll be fine aftersteady all the waygrips by minute 10attention 2/5earns its lengthsubtitles: full
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upcringe humiliation

Skip it tonightSkip if body transformation race comedies or French social satire feel off.

If Agathe Cléry is your film
The Intouchables (2011)
class and cultural clash French comedy with heart
(unless more dramatic tone wanted)
Qu'est-ce qu'on a fait au Bon Dieu ? (2014)
French comedy of cultural prejudices and family
(if more serious approach to race)
Tanguy (2001)
same director's sharp French family satire
(unless body transformation is key)
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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