Fine Dead Girls (2002) poster
2002 · drama · lgbt

Fine Dead Girls

Directed by Dalibor Matanić1h 17m2002
ElsewhereIMDb7.12kTMDB5.529
  • sombre
  • brisk
  • intense
  • bleak
Movie DNA

Sombre, kinetic, measured drama / lgbt, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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Iva and Marija, a young lesbian couple, rent an apartment in Zagreb, in a building that seems to provide a quiet and safe environment for their love, but over time the atmosphere in the building becomes more and more threatening. The elder landlady Olga dominates the building. Other tenants include her calm husband, her grown-up son Daniel who has a crush on Iva, the prostitute Lidija, an abused housewife, a widower keeping the corpse of his newly deceased wife, a gynecologist performing abortions in one flat of the house, and an ex-soldier who regularly plays martial music at night. After Olga finds out that Iva and Marija are lesbians, the situation escalates .

Our read · Fine Dead Girls (2002) reads as a sombre, kinetic, grounded drama · lgbt entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured 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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You want a bleak intense drama about a lesbian couple facing bigotry and violence.

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Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
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Skip it tonightYou want hopeful stories or are sensitive to homophobic violence.

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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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