Five Dolls for an August Moon
- sombre
- intense
- inventive
- cold
Sombre, steady, measured giallo / mystery, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →A wealthy playboy gathers a group of bourgeois friends at his isolated beach house for a weekend of relaxation. When bodies start pilling up, they realize they’re trapped with a killer in their midst, sending them in a frenzy to figure out who amongst them is killing the others before they are killed next.
Our read · Five Dolls for an August Moon (1970) reads as a sombre, steady, inventive giallo · mystery · thriller 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 Five Dolls for an August Moon
What watching it is actually like.
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The reading.
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