Some Like It Rare
- sombre
- kinetic
- intense
- cold
- intimate
Sombre, breathless, measured comedy / horror, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →Sophie and Vincent’s small butcher shop is on the brink of bankruptcy and their marriage is falling apart. Their lives are turned upside down when Vincent accidentally kills a vegan activist who vandalized their shop. Overwhelmed and terrified of being accused of murder, their only solution is to get rid of the body by turning it into ham. To their surprise the ham is so popular that it may save their business… that is if they’re ready to keep “hunting"!
Our read · Some Like It Rare (2021) reads as a sombre, breathless, inventive comedy · horror · political entry — measured in intensity, intimate 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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The shape of Some Like It Rare
What watching it is actually like.
“You want absurd French dark comedy about butchers selling human meat to survive.”
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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.
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Closeness in the twelve-axis space — how the film actually reads, not “people also liked.”
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