Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor
- sombre
- brisk
- intimate
Sombre, kinetic, gentle drama / music, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →Judith has known her husband Brice since they were children, but now their marriage is growing stale. Having just completed her graduate work in psychotherapy, she's eager to begin a career as a marriage counselor. She takes an internship at a matchmaking firm for millionaires and meets Harley, a charismatic billionaire investor who makes no effort to hide his attraction to Judith. Although quite resistant at first, eventually Judith succumbs to his charms, placing her marriage in jeopardy and forever altering the course of her life.
Our read · Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor (2013) reads as a sombre, kinetic, grounded drama · music entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic 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 Temptation
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Closeness in the twelve-axis space — how the film actually reads, not “people also liked.”
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