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2016 · comedy

Something New

Directed by Cristina Comencini1h 29m2016
ElsewhereIMDb5.7736
  • cosy
  • brisk
  • gentle
  • intimate
Movie DNA

Cosy, kinetic, gentle comedy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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Lucia and Maria are two best friends, who have known each other from the beginning of their life, but have very different tastes and behaviors. Lucia is done with men, Maria, on the contrary, cannot be without one. One night, the perfect man shows up in Maria's bed: handsome, sensible, mature and passionate.The next morning brings up misunderstandings and lies which make the two friends split up and take a break for themselves. Maybe that young man met by chance is really the one every woman is looking for, because with his simple theories he manages to paint the perfect picture of the two women's lives.

Our read · Something New (2016) reads as a cosy, kinetic, grounded comedy 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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You want a fun Italian romcom about best friends and surprising new romance.

ends warmyou’ll be fine aftersteady all the waygrips by minute 15attention 2/5breezes bysubtitles: full
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upexplicit sexnudity

Skip it tonightYou want deep drama or avoid relationship comedies.

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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