Hibernatus
- cosy
- brisk
- tender
- funny
Cosy, kinetic, measured comedy / sci-fi, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, tender, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →Hubert de Tartas' life becomes a complete muddle when his wife's grandfather is unearthed after having spent 65 years in frozen hibernation in the polar circle. After being de-frosted, the Hibernating Man believes it is still the beginning of the century. Nothing is spared to keep that illusion alive. At the end of his rope, Hubert blurts out the truth and takes the man from Edwardian times on a crazy spree through an ultramodern Twentieth Century.
Our read · Hibernatus (1969) reads as a cosy, kinetic, inventive comedy · sci-fi · music entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender 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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The shape of Hibernatus
What watching it is actually like.
“You want Louis de Funès farce as a frozen Edwardian wakes in 1970.”
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Closeness in the twelve-axis space — how the film actually reads, not “people also liked.”
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