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2018 · drama

Amanda

Directed by Mikhaël Hers1h 47m2018
ElsewhereIMDb7.04kRT96%Metacritic63
  • sombre
  • measured
  • gentle
  • tender
Movie DNA

Sombre, measured, gentle drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, tender, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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David, who gets by doing odd jobs, meets Léna, who has just moved up to Paris, and falls in love. But soon after, his life is brutally interrupted by the sudden death of his sister. Beyond the shock, and the pain, David now finds himself alone with his young niece Amanda to care for.

Our read · Amanda (2018) reads as a sombre, measured, grounded drama entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender 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 gentle French story of an uncle raising his niece after loss.

ends bittersweetit stays with yousteady all the waygrips by minute 14attention 3/5earns its lengthsubtitles: full
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
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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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