Paris, 13th District (2021) poster
2021 · drama · romance

Paris, 13th District

Directed by Jacques Audiard1h 46m2021
ElsewhereIMDb7.011kRT82%Metacritic76TMDB6.9393
  • measured
  • intimate
Movie DNA

Neutral, measured, measured drama / romance, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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Émilie meets Camille who is attracted to Nora, who crosses paths with Amber. Three girls and a boy – They're friends, sometimes lovers and often both.

Our read · Paris, 13th District (2021) reads as a neutral, measured, grounded drama · romance entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent 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 stylish, frank Paris romance about messy millennial love triangles.

ends warmit stays with yousteady all the waygrips by minute 10attention 4/5breezes bysubtitles: full
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upnudityexplicit sexdrug use

Skip it tonightBlack-and-white intimacy and overlapping lovers feel too hip for tonight.

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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