Madalena
- cosy
- brisk
- gentle
- intimate
Cosy, kinetic, gentle musical / aliki-vougiouklaki, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →Madalena is a tough seventeen-year-old who is forced to take on her father's ferry business after he dies. She has her many brothers and sisters to support, and there is no one else to do the job. So she rallies her defenses and sets out to give her rival in the ferry business a run for his money. But at the same time, the rival's handsome son is starting to look better and better. Madalena refuses to acknowledge her feelings for him -- though how long she can sustain that denial is the question.
Our read · Madalena (1960) reads as a cosy, kinetic, grounded musical · aliki-vougiouklaki · classic entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive 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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