Cabbage Soup (2013) poster
2013 · animation · latvian · short

Cabbage Soup

Directed by Jean Girault1h 38m2013
ElsewhereIMDb6.510kTMDB6.4943
  • warm
  • brisk
  • gentle
  • intimate
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Warm, kinetic, gentle animation / latvian, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, tender, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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Two buddy farmers are visited by aliens who like their domestic cabbage soup.

Our read · Cabbage Soup (2013) reads as a warm, kinetic, inventive animation · latvian · short 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 fart-fueled French sci-fi about two stubborn farmers and a soup-loving alien.

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Skip it tonightYou need English dialogue, hate bodily humor, or want tight plotting over pastoral silliness.

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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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