Faraway (2023) poster
2023 · romance · comedy · music

Faraway

Directed by Vanessa Jopp1h 49m2023
ElsewhereIMDb6.76kRT83%
  • cosy
  • gentle
  • redemptive
  • tender
  • intimate
Movie DNA

Cosy, steady, gentle romance / comedy, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, tender, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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Zeynap Altin is at the end of her tether: she works far too much and is not valued at all by her husband, daughter and father. To make matters worse, the funeral home dressed her beloved late mother in a man's suit instead of her favorite dress. Enough is enough: Zeynep flees from Munich to the previously unknown holiday home on a Croatian island that her mother secretly bought years ago - with the hope of finding quiet, peace and herself there. If only the previous owner Josip, a rough islander, didn't still live on the same property and annoy her with his views and wisdom.

Our read · Faraway (2023) reads as a cosy, steady, grounded romance · comedy · music entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive 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 breezy German rom-com about a woman escaping to find herself.

ends upliftingyou’ll feel glowing aftersteady all the waygrips by minute 10attention 2/5earns its lengthsubtitles: partial
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upnudityexplicit sex

Skip it tonightYou want pure escapism without family conflict or nudity.

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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