Our Children (2012) poster
2012 · drama · romance · music

Our Children

Directed by Joachim Lafosse1h 51m2012
ElsewhereRT93%
  • heavy
  • measured
  • extreme
  • bleak
  • cold
  • intimate
Movie DNA

Heavy, measured, extreme drama / romance, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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Young and full of life, Murielle has a promising future ahead of her when she meets and falls head over heels for Mounir. A wedding soon follows, and the happy couple quickly set about preparing to make a family. However, with family come ties, and none come as tight as that between Mounir and his adoptive father. As Murielle continues to bring new life into the family, frictions between Mounir and Doctor Pinget reach boiling point. Helpless to extract her husband and children from the wealthy nest that Doctor Pinget has provided for them, Murielle is drawn into an unhealthy family dynamic. There is only one way out of this nightmare, and for Murielle all sense of reasoning begins to abandon her.

Our read · Our Children (2012) reads as a heavy, measured, grounded drama · romance · music entry — extreme 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 an unflinching study of family control and how it can destroy.

ends devastatingit will wreck youa slow buildgrips by minute 35attention 4/5earns its lengthsubtitles: full
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upchild perilsuicide theme

Skip it tonightYou cannot handle stories of infanticide or family tragedy even off-screen.

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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