The New Adventures of Cinderella
- warm
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- gentle
Cosy, kinetic, gentle comedy, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →It's Julie's birthday but she seems to be the only one who remembers... Until Marco, the man she secretly loves, calls her and tells her he's going to drop off her son because the babysitter had a setback. Julie is devastated, everyone considers her to be a maid. Alone with this particularly obnoxious little boy, Julie decides to tell him the story of Cinderella... well, almost.
Our read · The New Adventures of Cinderella (2017) reads as a cosy, kinetic, inventive comedy 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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The shape of The New Adventures of Cinderella
What watching it is actually like.
“You want a cheeky French comedy of a mom telling a twisted Cinderella to an obnoxious kid.”
Skip it tonight — You want sophisticated or child-free sophisticated humor.
The reading.
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.
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Closeness in the twelve-axis space — how the film actually reads, not “people also liked.”
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