Devil in the Flesh
- sombre
- intense
Sombre, steady, measured drama / romance, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →An Italian high school student becomes infatuated with a woman he sees outside his class window. Her fiancée is in jail for being involved in a radical movement, and she spends much time in court providing moral support. At first she resists the student's advances, but eventually begins an affair with him. Their situation is condemned by her family and his father, who is the woman's psychologist.
Our read · Devil in the Flesh (1986) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded drama · romance entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic 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 Devil in the Flesh
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