Holmes & Watson
- warm
- kinetic
- gentle
- cold
- intimate
- funny
Warm, breathless, gentle comedy / mystery, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →Detective Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson join forces to investigate a mysterious murder at Buckingham Palace. It seems like an open-and-shut case as all signs point to Professor James Moriarty, the criminal mastermind and longtime nemesis of the crime-solving duo. When new twists and clues begin to emerge, the world's greatest sleuth and his trusted assistant must now use their legendary wits and ingenious methods to catch the killer as they only have four days before the queen becomes the next victim.
Our read · Holmes & Watson (2018) reads as a warm, breathless, grounded comedy · mystery · crime entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, cold 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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