Such a Gorgeous Kid Like Me
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Warm, breathless, measured comedy / crime, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →Young sociologist Stanislas Previne is writing a thesis on criminal women, so he visits Camille Bliss in prison for an interview. Accused of murdering her husband and her lover, Camille recounts her life and love affairs.
Our read · Such a Gorgeous Kid Like Me (1972) reads as a warm, breathless, inventive comedy · crime entry — measured 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 Such a Gorgeous Kid Like Me
What watching it is actually like.
“You want a witty Truffaut comedy about a charming sociopath and her suitors.”
Skip it tonight — Skip if you dislike unlikeable protagonists or French farce.
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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