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Moonlight

2016 · Drama · Barry Jenkins · 1h 51m

Three chapters in the life of a quiet boy growing up in Miami: as a child, as a teenager, and as a grown man. Each one turns on who he is willing to be seen as.

  • Strongly realistic
  • Strongly intimate
  • Strongly character-driven

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    2019 · Drama

    An ageing Spanish director in constant pain stops working and goes back through the people he left behind: his mother, a first love, an actor he fell out with. Slow and warm, and built out of memories.

    • Strongly character-driven
    • Strongly realistic
    • Strongly intimate
    • Clearly slow

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    Describe: Pain and Glory

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

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  • Shoplifters

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    2018 · Drama

    A family in Tokyo living off part-time work and small thefts takes in a little girl they find alone in the cold. It is quiet and slow, and most of it is the six of them crowded into a tiny house.

    • Strongly realistic
    • Strongly intimate
    • Strongly character-driven
    • Clearly heavy

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    Describe: Shoplifters

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  • May December

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    2023 · Drama

    An actress spends a week with the woman she is about to play, whose relationship with a much younger boy was a tabloid story twenty years ago. Mostly two women watching each other very closely in a nice house.

    • Strongly character-driven
    • Strongly realistic
    • Strongly intimate
    • Clearly heavy
    • Clearly slow

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    Describe: May December

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