Looking for Mr. Goodbar
- heavy
- extreme
- bleak
- intimate
Heavy, steady, extreme drama / thriller, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →A short, unhappy affair with a married man leads a dedicated schoolteacher into the alcohol-and-drug fueled underworld of singles’ bars, where she begins to engage in a pattern of dangerous sexual activity.
Our read · Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977) reads as a heavy, steady, grounded drama · thriller entry — extreme in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature. 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 raw Seventies portrait of loneliness, bars, and self-destruction.”
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