The Clink of Ice (2010) poster
2010 · comedy · drama

The Clink of Ice

Directed by Bertrand Blier1h 27m2010
ElsewhereIMDb6.23kRT80%
  • measured
  • gentle
  • surreal
  • cold
  • intimate
Movie DNA

Neutral, measured, gentle comedy / drama, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, cold.

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An alcoholic writer is visited by an incarnation of his cancer.

Our read · The Clink of Ice (2010) reads as a neutral, measured, surreal comedy · drama entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.

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You want a quirky French dark comedy where cancer visits an alcoholic writer as a person.

ends bittersweetit stays with yousteady all the waygrips by minute 10attention 3/5earns its lengthsubtitles: full
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around

Skip it tonightYou avoid illness or mortality themes even in comedy.

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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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