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2006 · comedy · village · occupation

Uranya

Directed by Costas Kapakas1h 40m2006
ElsewhereIMDb6.51kTMDB5.934
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Warm, steady, measured comedy / village, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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A group of young boys must decide whether to buy a TV set to watch the launch of Apollo 11 or visit Uranya to learn about the secrets of love.

Our read · Uranya (2006) reads as a warm, steady, grounded comedy · village · occupation 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 nostalgic Greek comedy of boys choosing the moon landing or a prostitute's lessons.

ends warmyou’ll be fine aftersteady all the waygrips by minute 12attention 2/5breezes bysubtitles: full
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upnudity

Skip it tonightComing-of-age stories with young boys and a prostitute make you uncomfortable.

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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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