The Weekend Away (2022) poster
2022 · thriller · mystery

The Weekend Away

Directed by Kim Farrant1h 30m2022
ElsewhereIMDb5.733kRT42%Metacritic51
  • heavy
  • brisk
  • extreme
  • cold
  • twisty
Movie DNA

Heavy, kinetic, extreme thriller / mystery, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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When her best friend vanishes during a girls' trip to Croatia, Beth races to figure out what happened. But each clue yields another unsettling deception.

Our read · The Weekend Away (2022) reads as a heavy, kinetic, inventive thriller · mystery entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold 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 glossy Croatia mystery that keeps swapping what you think happened.

ends bittersweetit stays with yousteady all the waygrips by minute 8attention 3/5breezes by
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-updrug usegraphic violence

Skip it tonightSkip if infidelity, roofies, and murder vibes are too heavy for late night.

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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