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2016 · action · comedy

Odd Job

Directed by Pascal Chaumeil1h 47m2016
ElsewhereIMDb6.42k
  • brisk
  • cold
Movie DNA

Neutral, kinetic, measured action / comedy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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An unemployed factory worker takes a job as a hit man to make ends meet.

Our read · Odd Job (2016) reads as a neutral, kinetic, grounded action · comedy entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold 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 dark French comedy about an unemployed man taking a hitman gig.

ends warmyou’ll be fine aftersteady all the waygrips by minute 14attention 3/5earns its lengthsubtitles: full
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upnuditygraphic violencedrug use

Skip it tonightYou dislike violent humor or French black comedy.

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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