Incident by a Bank (2010) poster
2010 · action · comedy · crime · drama

Incident by a Bank

Directed by Ruben Östlund12m2010
ElsewhereIMDb6.92k
  • measured
  • gentle
  • cold
  • intimate
Movie DNA

Neutral, measured, gentle action / comedy, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, cold.

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Incident by a bank is a detailed account of a failed bank robbery: A single take where over 90 people perform a meticulous choreography for the camera. The film recreates an actual event that took place in Stockholm in June 2006.

Our read · Incident by a Bank (2010) reads as a neutral, measured, inventive action · comedy · crime entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.

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You want a clever one-take Swedish short perfectly choreographing a real failed bank robbery.

ends warmyou’ll be fine aftergrabs you earlygrips from the openattention 3/5breezes bysubtitles: full
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around

Skip it tonightYou want conventional narrative shorts with dialogue and character arcs.

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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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