Little Tickles (2018) poster
2018 · drama · comedy

Little Tickles

Directed by Andréa Bescond, Eric Métayer1h 43m2018
ElsewhereIMDb7.22kRT71%
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Movie DNA

Heavy, steady, extreme drama / comedy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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Odette is a 8-yr-old girl who loves to dance and draw. Once she has become an adult, Odette realizes she was abused, and immerses herself body and soul in her career as a dancer while trying to deal with her past.

Our read · Little Tickles (2018) reads as a heavy, steady, grounded drama · comedy entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured 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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You want a harrowing yet ultimately hopeful story of surviving childhood sexual abuse through dance and therapy.

ends upliftingit stays with youa rollercoastergrips by minute 5attention 4/5earns its lengthsubtitles: full
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upsexual violencechild peril

Skip it tonightYou cannot handle child sexual abuse themes or trauma recovery stories.

DNA · twelve axes

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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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