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2021 · drama · thriller · music

Lovers

Directed by Nicole Garcia1h 42m2021
ElsewhereIMDb5.51k
  • sombre
  • intense
  • bleak
  • cold
Movie DNA

Sombre, steady, measured drama / thriller, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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Set in Paris the story follows Lisa, who, while on vacation with her husband, rekindles a passionate affair with her ex-boyfriend. But that may lead to a murder.

Our read · Lovers (2021) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded drama · thriller · music entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic 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 sleek French romantic thriller about an affair that turns dangerous.

ends unsettlingit leaves you shakena rollercoastergrips by minute 15attention 3/5earns its lengthsubtitles: full
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upexplicit sexnuditydrug use

Skip it tonightSkip if adultery, explicit sex scenes or looming murder will make you uneasy.

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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