Ricky
- measured
- gentle
- inventive
Warm, measured, gentle fantasy / comedy, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →When Katie meets Paco, they fall in love. From this an extraordinary child is born; Ricky, who quickly develops into something wonderful and not so normal.
Our read · Ricky (2009) reads as a warm, measured, surreal fantasy · comedy · drama entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured 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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The shape of Ricky
What watching it is actually like.
“You want a quirky French fantasy about ordinary parents raising an extraordinary winged child.”
Skip it tonight — Skip if whimsical tone mixed with family stress and odd sex scenes will confuse you.
The reading.
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.
Eight films that read most like this one.
Closeness in the twelve-axis space — how the film actually reads, not “people also liked.”
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