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2015 · drama · romance

Those People

Directed by Joey Kuhn1h 29m2015
ElsewhereIMDb6.57kRT80%
  • sombre
  • gentle
  • intimate
Movie DNA

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

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On Manhattan's gilded Upper East Side, a young gay painter is torn between an obsession with his infamous best friend and a promising new romance with an older foreign pianist.

Our read · Those People (2015) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded drama · romance 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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You want messy gay Manhattan romance tangled with grief and toxic obsession.

ends bittersweetit leaves you shakena slow buildgrips by minute 22attention 4/5earns its length
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upsuicide theme

Skip it tonightSkip if suicide grief and toxic friendship dynamics hit too close tonight.

If Those People is your film
Weekend (2011)
Raw gay intimacy and honest desire before sunrise ends
(unless you need grief plotlines)
Parting Glances (1986)
NYC gay friendship, illness, and romantic triangle pressure
(unless eighties indie grain annoys)
Maurice (1987)
Upper-class restraint colliding with forbidden queer longing
(unless period formality feels stiff)
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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