The House of Tomorrow (2018) poster
2018 · drama · music · comedy

The House of Tomorrow

Directed by Peter Livolsi1h 25m2018
ElsewhereIMDb6.22kRT75%Metacritic58TMDB6.868
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Warm, steady, measured drama / music, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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The film tells futurist, architect, and inventor R. Buckminster Fuller's incredible story through two teens hoping to get laid, become punk gods, and survive high school.

Our read · The House of Tomorrow (2018) reads as a warm, steady, grounded drama · music · comedy 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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You want a gentle indie coming-of-age about a sheltered teen discovering punk and real friendship.

ends warmyou’ll be fine aftersteady all the waygrips by minute 12attention 3/5earns its length
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-updrug use

Skip it tonightYou want high drama or dislike quiet teen films heavy on ideas and smoking.

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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