Yomeddine (2018) poster
2018 · drama

Yomeddine

Directed by Abu Bakr Shawky1h 37m2018
ElsewhereIMDb7.32kRT77%Metacritic62TMDB6.934
  • measured
  • intimate
Movie DNA

Neutral, measured, gentle drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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A Coptic leper and his orphaned apprentice leave the confines of the leper colony for the first time and embark on a journey across Egypt to search for what is left of their families.

Our read · Yomeddine (2018) reads as a neutral, measured, grounded drama 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 a gentle Egyptian road movie about outcasts seeking family and connection.

ends warmit stays with yousteady all the waygrips by minute 15attention 3/5earns its lengthsubtitles: full
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around

Skip it tonightYou want fast action or polished Hollywood storytelling.

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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