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2014 · comedy

Do Not Disturb

Directed by Patrice Leconte1h 19m2014
ElsewhereIMDb5.73k
  • warm
  • kinetic
  • gentle
  • intimate
  • funny
Movie DNA

Cosy, breathless, gentle comedy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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Michel, who's crazy about jazz, has just found a rare album that he dreams of quietly listening to in his living room. But the world seems to have conspired against him: his wife chooses this moment to divulge an ill-timed revelation, his adult son makes a surprise visit, one of his friends knocks on the door, while his mother keeps calling him on his smartphone. Not to mention that today the residents in his apartment building are holding their annual House Party. Manipulative and a liar, Michel is ready to do anything to have a moment of peace and quiet. Is it still possible, in this day and age, to just have one hour of peace?

Our read · Do Not Disturb (2014) reads as a cosy, breathless, grounded comedy entry — gentle in intensity, intimate 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 classic French farce about a man desperate for one quiet hour with his jazz record.

ends warmyou’ll be fine aftergrabs you earlygrips from the openattention 2/5breezes bysubtitles: full
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around

Skip it tonightYou find broad comedy or domestic chaos annoying or unfunny.

If Do Not Disturb is your film
The Dinner Game (1998)
French farce of escalating disasters
(different premise)
The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe (1972)
Leconte style comic misunderstandings
(older spy parody)
Ridicule (1996)
same director witty French period comedy
(18th century court setting)
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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