The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him (2014) poster
2014 · drama · romance

The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him

Directed by Ned Benson1h 29m2014
ElsewhereIMDb6.810kMetacritic63
  • sombre
  • measured
  • gentle
  • intimate
Movie DNA

Sombre, measured, gentle drama / romance, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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Told from the man's perspective, the story of a couple trying to reclaim the life and love they once knew and pick up the pieces of a past that may be too far gone.

Our read · The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him (2014) reads as a sombre, measured, grounded drama · romance 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 quiet grief drama told through a husband still chasing his marriage.

ends ambiguousit stays with youmeditativegrips by minute 10attention 4/5earns its length
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upsuicide theme

Skip it tonightYou need plot momentum; this is slow, aching, and emotionally heavy.

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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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