The Revenge of the Shiny Shrimps
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- brisk
Warm, kinetic, measured comedy / survival, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, tender, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →Two years after the death of Jean, Matthias, the coach, decides to take Selime, a young man from the suburbs he believes is gay, to accompany the Shiny Shrimps to the Gay Games in Tokyo, on a trip to pay tribute to their friend who left too early. But after they miss their connection, they find themselves stranded in Russia, in one of the not the most gay-friendly regions in the world. The start of a crazy adventure as incredible as it is perilous.
Our read · The Revenge of the Shiny Shrimps (2022) reads as a warm, kinetic, grounded comedy · survival · revenge entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender 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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