The Lovers (2017) poster
2017 · drama · romance · comedy

The Lovers

Directed by Azazel Jacobs1h 34m2017
ElsewhereIMDb6.14kRT81%Metacritic76TMDB5.494
  • measured
  • intimate
Movie DNA

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

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The separation of a long married couple goes awry when they fall for each other again.

Our read · The Lovers (2017) reads as a neutral, measured, grounded drama · romance · 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 dry adult comedy about a long-married couple who fall back in love while cheating.

ends warmyou’ll feel glowing aftersteady all the waygrips by minute 15attention 3/5breezes by
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upnudityexplicit sex

Skip it tonightSkip if marital infidelity or quiet midlife dissatisfaction sounds depressing tonight.

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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