Cassandre (2025) poster
2025 · drama · coming-of-age

Cassandre

Directed by Hélène Merlin2025
  • sombre
Movie DNA

Sombre, steady, measured drama / coming-of-age, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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Summer 1998. Countryside. Cassandre is 14. Her parents and older brother notice that her body has changed.

Our read · Cassandre (2025) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded drama · coming-of-age entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured 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 raw coming-of-age story of a girl escaping family abuse via horses.

ends bittersweetit leaves you shakena slow buildgrips by minute 22attention 4/5earns 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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